Cannot encode 5 digit unicode.

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BPO	964284
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title = 'Cannot encode 5 digit unicode.'
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For this unicode point:
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=21484

If I do a:
>>> u"\u21484"

or
>>> "\u21484".decode('unicode-escape')

I got 2 character: \u2148 and 4.
outside BMP?

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It seems that I have to use \U instead of \u here.