U+536A "卪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+536A "卪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that originally served as a variant form of the seal script radical for "joint" or "knot," often associated with the modern character "卩" (jié). In classical texts, it appears as a component in compound characters related to seals, tally tokens, or ceremonial credentials, reflecting its historical use in written forms of ancient administrative or ritual objects. While not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing, it remains encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve the full set of historical CJK ideographs required for scholarly research and digital representation of classic literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+536A
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	卪
HTML Hex Encoding	卪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8D 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x536A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000536A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u536a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie	SLI
kCantonese	zit3
kCihaiT	225.103
kDaeJaweon	0363.040
kDefinition	kwukyel
kHanYu	10310.110
kHanyuPinyin	10310.110:jié
kIRGDaeJaweon	0363.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10310.110
kIRGKangXi	0158.470
kIRG_GSource	GK-6833
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-007881
kIRG_KSource	K2-256E
kIRG_TSource	T4-2131
kJapanese	セツ セチ
kKangXi	0158.470
kMandarin	jié
kMojiJoho	MJ007881
kMorohashi	02838
kPseudoGB1	9325
kRSUnicode	26.1
kTotalStrokes	3