Analysis of the Unicode Han Database

The Unicode Han Database is part of the Unicode standard and contains data on all CJK Unified Ideographs encoded by the standard.

As of version 5.1, Unicode contains 71.234 CJK character and a total of 1.1 million character field values.

The Unihan database groups character fields into Field Types. For each field type below, the fields, the (assumed) language, and the number of characters having a value for that field are listed.

Definition

The English gloss

Definition

20627

Reading

The pronunciation for a given character

Japanese Kun	Japanese	11291
Japanese On	Japanese	13174
Mandarin pronunciation (Pinyin)	Chinese	25478
Tang pronunciation	Chinese	3811
Cantonese (Jyutping)	Cantonese	20015
Korean pronunciation	Korean	9050
Korean pronuniciation in Hangul	Korean	7745
Vietnamese pronunciation	Vietnamese	8300

Numeric

The numerical value of an ideograph

Accounting Numeral		26
Numeric Value		17
Other Numeric		30

Radical-Stroke Counts

Total Strokes		27929
Unicode Radical-Stroke Count		71234
Adobe-Japan1-6	Japanese	13411
Japanese Radical-Stroke Count	Japanese	198
KangXi Radical-Stroke Count	Japanese	63696
Morohashi Radical-Stroke Count	Japanese	157
Korean Radical-Stroke Count	Korean	20

Variants

Variant ideographs

Compatibility Variant		997
Semantic Variant		3205
Specialized Semantic Variant		482
Unicode Z-variant		2566
Simplified Variant	Chinese	2674
Traditional Variant	Chinese	2593

Dictionary Index

Index to standard dictionaries

Grammata Serica Recensa, 1957		7403
Karlgren: Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, 1974		2560
IRG Dai Kanwa Ziten (Morohashi)	Japanese	17864
Morohashi index	Japanese	21204
Nelson: Modern Reader’s Japanese-English Character Dictionary	Japanese	5398
Fenn’s Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary, 1942	Chinese	5937
Hanyu Da Zidian position	Chinese	55818
IRG Hanyu Da Zidian	Chinese	55813
KangXi	Chinese	70206
KangXi position	Chinese	20938
Mathews: Chinese-English Dictionary	Chinese	8988
Pronunciation and Frequency	Chinese	3799
Song Ben Guang Yun	Chinese	19583
Cheng, Bauer: The Representation of Cantonese with Chinese Characters, 2002	Cantonese	809
Cowles: A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, 1999	Cantonese	4821
Lau: A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary, 1977	Cantonese	3516
Meyer, Wempe: Student’s Cantonese-English Dictionary	Cantonese	7352
Dae Jaweon, 1988	Korean	16026
IRG Dae Jaweon	Korean	16024

Dictionary-like Data

Miscellaneous lookup information

Four-Corner Code		16256
IRG IICore		9810
Cangjie Input Code	Chinese	29148
Cihai, Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983	Chinese	13884
Fenn: The Five Thousand Dictionary, 1979	Chinese	5075
Frequency	Chinese	5089
Hanyu Da Zidian Radical Break	Chinese	200
Phonetic Index (from Ten Thousand Characters)	Chinese	11463
Xiandai Hanyu Cidian	Chinese	10992
Hong Kong proper shape	Hong Kong	4825
Hong Kong school grade	Hong Kong	2632
Cheng, Bauer: The Representation of Cantonese with Chinese Characters, 2002	Cantonese	809

Mappings

Encodings in other character sets

CCCII		19698
EACC		13244
Xerox code		9747
IBM Japanese	Japanese	360
JIS X 0208-1990	Japanese	6356
JIS X 0212-1990	Japanese	5801
JIS X 0213-2000	Japanese	3695
Big5	Chinese	13063
CNS 11643-1986	Chinese	17258
CNS 11643-1992	Chinese	17258
GB 12345-90	Chinese	6866
GB 2312-80	Chinese	6763
GB 7589-87	Chinese	4836
GB 7590-87	Chinese	2842
GB 8565-89	Chinese	827
PRC Telegraph Code	Chinese	7085
Pseudo GB 12345-90	Chinese	153
Taiwan Telegraph	Chinese	9041
Big5 HK Supplementary Character Set	Hong Kong	4512
KPS 10721-2000	Korean	19301
KPS 9566-97	Korean	4653
KS X 1001:1992	Korean	4888
KS X 1002:1991	Korean	2856

IRG Sources

The Ideographic Rapporteur Group

IRG U		41
IRG Japan	Japanese	13684
IRG PRC and Singapore	Chinese	57628
IRG Taiwan	Chinese	54989
IRG Hong Kong SAR	Hong Kong	4511
IRG North Korea	Korean	24122
IRG South Korea	Korean	17661
IRG Vietnam	Vietnamese	9298