U+538A "厊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+538A "厊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character that falls under the "Cliff" radical (厂). Its pronunciation in Mandarin is typically given as "yǎ," and its historical meaning relates to the concept of "uneven" or "rough" terrain, often suggesting a narrow or cramped space. This character is extremely uncommon in modern Chinese texts and is primarily encountered in specialized dictionaries or ancient literary contexts, where it may describe a rocky or jagged landscape. Due to its infrequent use, it is rarely included in standard character sets, making its encoding in Unicode a means to preserve and represent an obscure piece of East Asian cultural and linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+538A
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	厊
HTML Hex Encoding	厊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8E 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x538A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000538A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u538a

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

kBigFive	C9C4
kCCCII	216D5F
kCNS1986	2-2224
kCNS1992	2-2224
kCangjie	MMVH
kCantonese	ngaa5
kCihaiT	228.601
kDaeJaweon	0367.160
kFanqie	五下
kFourCornerCode	7124.1
kGB5	1648
kHanYu	10069.090
kHanyuPinyin	10069.090:yǎ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0367.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10069.090
kIRGKangXi	0160.300
kIRG_GSource	G5-3050
kIRG_HSource	HB2-C9C4
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-007925
kIRG_KSource	K2-2574
kIRG_TSource	T2-2224
kJapanese	ガ ゲ
kJapaneseKun	KUICHIGAU
kJapaneseOn	KA GE
kKangXi	0160.300
kKorean	A
kMandarin	yǎ
kMojiJoho	MJ007925
kMorohashi	02907
kPhonetic	951
kRSUnicode	27.4
kSBGY	308.05
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	HMT