U+5FF8 "忸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

忸
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5FF8 "忸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in modern and classical Mandarin texts, where it conveys meanings related to shyness, bashfulness, or embarrassment, often appearing in the word "忸怩" (niǔní), which describes a feeling of awkwardness or being ill at ease. Morphologically, it is a compound ideograph with the radical 忄 (heart or mind) on the left, indicating an emotional or mental state, and the phonetic component 丑 on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. This character is also present in some other East Asian writing systems like Japanese and Korean, where it retains a similar semantic nuance tied to feelings of self-consciousness or timidity.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+5FF8
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
忸
HTML Hex Encoding
忸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xBF 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5FF8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005FF8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5ff8

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
A7D7
kCCCII
222A73
kCNS1986
1-4A39
kCNS1992
1-4A39
kCangjie
PNG
kCantonese
nau2
kCihaiT
525.404
kDaeJaweon
0706.260
kDefinition
blush, be bashful, be ashamed
kEACC
222A73
kFanqie
女六
kFenn
676G
kFennIndex
366.05
kFourCornerCode
9701.5
kGB0
6678
kGB1
6678
kGSR
1076k
kHangul
뉴:1N
kHanYu
42279.010
kHanyuPinyin
42279.010:niǔ
kIICore
AGTJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42279.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-626E
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A7D7
kIRG_JSource
J0-5759
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-4275
kIRG_KSource
K1-5C58
kIRG_TSource
T1-4A39
kIRG_VSource
V2-8B78
kJapanese
ジク ジュウ ニク ニュ はじる なれる
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3793
kJapaneseKun
HAJIRU
kJapaneseOn
JIKU JUU
kJis0
5557
kKangXi
0378.270
kKorean
NYU
kMainlandTelegraph
1821
kMandarin
niǔ
kMatthews
4739
kMeyerWempe
1974a 2122a
kMojiJoho
MJ011431
kMorohashi
10397
kNelson
1651
kPhonetic
90
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4804+61.3.4
kRSUnicode
61.4
kSBGY
457.37
kSMSZD2003Index
218.13
kSMSZD2003Readings
niǔ粵nuk6,nau2
kTaiwanTelegraph
1821
kTGHZ2013
269.090:niǔ
kTotalStrokes
7
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
272:241
kXHC1983
0838.010:niǔ