U+531C "匜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
匜
U+531C "匜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an ancient Chinese character pronounced as yí in Mandarin, and it refers to a type of bronze or earthenware vessel used in ceremonial rituals during the Zhou dynasty, primarily for holding water in hand-washing or libation rites. Its shape typically resembles a shallow basin with a spout and a handle, and it is one of several vessel forms cataloged in traditional Chinese bronze inscriptions and later lexicons. In modern usage, the character is rare in everyday language but appears in historical texts, artifact descriptions, and philological studies related to early Chinese material culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+531C |
| 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 | 匜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 匜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8C 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x531C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000531C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u531c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C96C |
| kCCCII | 216D24 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-214D |
| kCNS1992 | 2-214D |
| kCangjie | SPD |
| kCantonese | ji4 |
| kCihaiT | 205.603 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0345.040 |
| kDefinition | basin; container for wine |
| kEACC | 216D24 |
| kFanqie | 弋支 移爾 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7171.1 |
| kGB3 | 1639 |
| kGB8 | 9008 |
| kGSR | 0004n |
| kHanYu | 10082.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10082.060:yí |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0345.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10082.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0153.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3047 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-C96C |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2E6D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-387F |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2555 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-214D |
| kJapanese | イ タ ダ |
| kTGH | 2013:3536 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,14,77 |
| kJapaneseKun | HISAGE HANZOU |
| kJapaneseOn | I TA DA |
| kJis1 | 2006 |
| kKangXi | 0153.140 |
| kKorean | I |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0558 |
| kMandarin | yí |
| kMatthews | 2942 |
| kMeyerWempe | 854j |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007786 |
| kMorohashi | 02598 |
| kPhonetic | 1471 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+16800+22.2.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 22.3 |
| kSBGY | 041.38 244.25 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 72.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yí粵jyu4 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+9248<sHanyuDaCidian1986:T |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0558 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 431.140:yí |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 302:102 |
| kXHC1983 | 1363.120:yí |