U+5B51 "孑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

孑
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5B51 "孑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally signifies loneliness, solitude, or the state of being alone, often seen in classical texts and modern usage as a component in compound words. Its structure evokes the image of a single, isolated person, and it appears in terms like "孑然一身" (jiérán yīshēn), meaning "all alone" or "solitary." This ideograph is part of the Kangxi radicals under the radical 子 (child) and carries minimal strokes, making it a concise symbol for separation or the end of a lineage, though it also appears in scientific contexts such as in the name of the mosquito genus "Anopheles" via the character "孑孓" (jiéjué) for wrigglers.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5B51
Version Added
1.1
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block
CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category
Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class
Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class
Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
孑
HTML Hex Encoding
孑
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xAD 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5B51
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005B51
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5b51

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check
Yes
NFD Quick Check
Yes
NFKC Quick Check
Yes
NFKD Quick Check
Yes
Numeric Type
None
Numeric Value
NaN
Line Break
Ideographic
East Asian Width
Wide
Script
Han
Script Extensions
Han
Indic Syllabic Category
Other
ID Start
Yes
XID Start
Yes
ID Continue
Yes
XID Continue
Yes
Alphabetic
Yes
Vertical Orientation
Upright
Grapheme Base
Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break
Other
Word Break
Other
Sentence Break
OLetter
Ideographic
Yes
Unified Ideograph
Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
A46D
kCCCII
213A4E
kCNS1986
1-444E
kCNS1992
1-444E
kCangjie
NNM
kCantonese
kit3
kCihaiT
396.501
kDaeJaweon
0544.010
kDefinition
remaining, left-over; lonely
kEACC
213A4E
kFanqie
居列
kFourCornerCode
1740.7
kGB0
7061
kGB1
7061
kGSR
0283a
kHangul
혈:0N
kHanYu
21008.010
kHanyuPinyin
21008.010:jié
kHKGlyph
0970
kIICore
AGTHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21008.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-665D
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A46D
kIRG_JSource
J0-5553
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F3CE
kIRG_KSource
K0-7A6A
kIRG_TSource
T1-444E
kJapanese
ケツ ゲツ キツ キチ ひとり
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3505
kJapaneseKun
HITORI
kJapaneseOn
GETSU KETSU
kJis0
5351
kKangXi
0277.070
kKorean
HYEL
kMainlandTelegraph
1312
kMandarin
jié
kMatthews
784
kMeyerWempe
1182a
kMojiJoho
MJ010052
kMorohashi
06931
kNelson
0269
kPhonetic
134 633
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4610+39.3.0
kRSUnicode
39.0
kSBGY
500.09
kSMSZD2003Index
163.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
jié粵kit3
kTaiwanTelegraph
1312
kTGHZ2013
172.110:jié
kTotalStrokes
3
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
271:105
kXHC1983
0580.150:jié