U+536B "卫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+536B "卫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a simplified Chinese character that primarily means "to guard," "to protect," or "to defend," and it corresponds to the traditional form "衛." This ideograph is commonly used in terms such as "卫生" (wèishēng), meaning "hygiene" or "health," and "卫星" (wèixīng), meaning "satellite." It also appears in place names and compound words related to military defense or safeguarding, reflecting its historical and modern significance in written Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+536B
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	卫
HTML Hex Encoding	卫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8D 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x536B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000536B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u536b

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

kCCCII	275749
kCangjie	SLM
kCantonese	wai6
kDefinition	guard, protect, defend
kEACC	275749
kFourCornerCode	1710
kGB0	4632
kHanYu	10050.040
kHanyuPinlu	wèi(340)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10050.040
kIRGKangXi	0076.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-4E40
kTGH	2013:65
kKangXi	0076.141
kMainlandTelegraph	5898
kMandarin	wèi
kPhonetic	208 1433
kRSUnicode	26.1
kSMSZD2003Index	3.03 10.05
kTGHZ2013	383.200:wèi
kTotalStrokes	3
kTraditionalVariant	"衛" U+885B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1201.080:wèi