U+5338 "匸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
匸
U+5338 "匸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in East Asian scripts, primarily in classical and modern Chinese, with a pronunciation roughly like "xì" in Mandarin. Its original meaning relates to "to hide" or "to conceal," derived from its pictographic representation of a box or container with a lid, suggesting something covered or enclosed. In modern usage, it is rare as a standalone character and appears mostly in compound words or as a radical in other ideographs, such as in the character "區" (region or area), where it serves as a semantic component indicating enclosure. Overall, 匸 is a niche but historically significant part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5338 |
| 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 | 匸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 匸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8C 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5338 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005338 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5338 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 216D3A |
| kCNS1986 | E-2129 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2129 |
| kCangjie | MV |
| kCihaiT | 206.603 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0347.100 |
| kDefinition | box; Kangxi radical 23 |
| kEACC | 216D3A |
| kFanqie | 胡禮 |
| kFenn | 645K |
| kFennIndex | 162.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7171.0 1071.0 |
| kHangul | 혜:N |
| kHanYu | 10081.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10081.040:xì |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0347.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10081.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0154.350 |
| kIRG_GSource | GT-0571 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-C6C7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-523E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3893 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2563 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2129 |
| kJapanese | ケイ ゲイ かくしがまえ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKUSU OOU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI |
| kJis0 | 5030 |
| kKangXi | 0154.350 |
| kKarlgren | 122 |
| kKorean | HYEY |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0571 |
| kMandarin | xì |
| kMatthews | 2413 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007816 |
| kMorohashi | 02672 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4307+23.2.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 23.0 |
| kSBGY | 270.04 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0571 |
| kTotalStrokes | 2 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |
| kXerox | 324:047 |