U+538D "厍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+538D "厍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in historical or regional contexts, particularly in Eastern Han dynasty texts and classical poetry. Its meaning is often associated with a place name or a type of shelter, such as a shed or a small house, and it is sometimes considered a variant of the more common character 庫 (meaning "warehouse" or "storehouse"). In modern standard Mandarin, it is pronounced "shè" and appears less frequently in contemporary usage, typically surfacing in historical records, calligraphy, or references to specific geographic locations in China.

General Properties

Code Point	U+538D
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	厍
HTML Hex Encoding	厍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8E 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x538D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000538D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u538d

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	276D6D
kCangjie	XMKQ
kCantonese	se3
kDefinition	surname
kEACC	276D6D
kFourCornerCode	7125
kGB0	5639
kHanYu	10069.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10069.080
kIRGKangXi	0160.371
kIRG_GSource	G0-5847
kTGH	2013:3586
kKangXi	0160.371
kMainlandTelegraph	0623
kMandarin	shè
kRSUnicode	27.4
kSMSZD2003Index	79.11
kTGHZ2013	329.030:shè
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"厙" U+5399 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1014.010:shè