U+5B5B "孛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

孛
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5B5B "孛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with a rich historical and linguistic background, traditionally pronounced as *bei* or *bo* in Mandarin. It originally depicted a comet or a sudden radiance, with its ancient form combining elements of a person (子) and a mouth or speech (口), but it later evolved to represent concepts like "comet," "sudden light," or "a flourishing, disorderly growth." In classical Chinese texts, "孛" often appears in astronomical contexts to describe a comet streaking across the sky, and it is also used as a surname and in classical literature to denote bursting forth or abrupt change.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5B5B
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
孛
HTML Hex Encoding
孛
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xAD 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5B5B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005B5B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5b5b

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
A7B8
kCCCII
217E21
kCNS1986
1-4978
kCNS1992
1-4978
kCangjie
JBND
kCantonese
bui6
kCihaiT
398.501
kDaeJaweon
0546.010
kDefinition
comet
kEACC
217E21
kFanqie
蒲昧 蒲没
kFenn
113K
kFennIndex
419.08
kFourCornerCode
4040.7
kGB0
5635
kGB1
5635
kGSR
0491a
kHangul
패:1N
kHanYu
21011.050
kHanyuPinyin
21011.050:bèi,bó
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21011.050
kIRG_GSource
G0-5843
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A7B8
kIRG_JSource
J0-5556
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3E22
kIRG_KSource
K1-7178
kIRG_TSource
T1-4978
kIRG_VSource
V1-5240
kJapanese
ボツ ベ ボチ フチ ハイ ホツ フツ ヒ
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3683
kJapaneseOn
BOTSU HAI
kJis0
5354
kKangXi
0278.080
kKorean
PHAY
kMainlandTelegraph
1319
kMandarin
bèi
kMatthews
5023
kMeyerWempe
2506c
kMojiJoho
MJ010062
kMorohashi
06949
kPhonetic
1093
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4613+24.2.5 C+4613+39.3.4
kRSUnicode
39.4
kSBGY
387.38 480.33
kSMSZD2003Index
163.12 74.18
kSMSZD2003Readings
bèi,bó粵bui6,but6
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+67CF<kFenn U+6822<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph
1319
kTang
bət bə̀i
kTGHZ2013
014.070:bèi
kTotalStrokes
7
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kVietnamese
bụt
kXerox
275:361
kXHC1983
0046.060:bèi 0082.060:bó