This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as root, origin, source; basis. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is běn.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+672C offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
26412
UTF-8
E6 9C AC
UTF-16
67 2C
UTF-32
00 00 67 2C
URL-Quoted
%E6%9C%AC
HTML hex reference
本
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
本
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A5 BB
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A5 BB
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
96 7B
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
DC E2
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A5 BB
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
CB DC
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
CB DC
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
CB DC
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
DC E2
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
B1 BE
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
B1 BE
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
B1 BE
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 31 3E 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 5C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 5C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 5C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 5C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 5C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4B 5C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 5C 62 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
E9 72
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
96 7B
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
96 7B
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
96 7B
Pīnyīn
běn
RFC 5137
\u'672C'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u672C
C and C++
\u672C
C#
\u672C
CSS
\00672C
Excel
=UNICHAR(26412)
Go
\u672C
JavaScript
\u672C
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{672c}
JSON
\u672C
Java
\u672C
Lua
\u{672C}
Matlab
char(26412)
Perl
"\x{672C}"
PHP
\u{672c}
PostgreSQL
U&'\672C'
PowerShell
`u{672C}
Python
\u672C
Ruby
\u{672c}
Rust
\u{672c}
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