U+538E "厎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

厎

U+538E "厎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both classical and modern written texts, primarily functioning as a variant of the more common character "底" (dǐ), meaning "bottom," "base," or "foundation." In its traditional usage, "厎" can also carry the sense of "to smooth" or "to polish a stone," reflecting its etymological roots in ancient Chinese where it was associated with the action of grinding or refining. This character is composed of the radical "厂" (cliff) on the outer left, with the phonetic component "氏" beneath, and it appears in historical literature, such as in classical texts like the "Shuowen Jiezi," where it is defined as a type of whetstone. Today, it is recognized within the Unicode standard for digital text representation, particularly in contexts involving complex traditional Chinese characters or historical linguistic studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+538E
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	厎
HTML Hex Encoding	厎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8E 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x538E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000538E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u538e

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	CA74
kCCCII	216D64
kCNS1986	2-2336
kCNS1992	2-2336
kCangjie	MHPM
kCantonese	zi2
kCihaiT	229.101
kDaeJaweon	0367.240
kDefinition	settle
kEACC	216D64
kFanqie	職雉諸市
kFourCornerCode	7124.2
kGB3	1621
kGSR	0590n
kHangul	지:N
kHanYu	10070.050
kHanyuPinyin	10070.050:dǐ,zhǐ
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	0367.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10070.050
kIRGKangXi	0160.400
kIRG_GSource	G3-3035
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CA74
kIRG_JSource	J1-3446
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-38D8
kIRG_KSource	K2-2575
kIRG_TSource	T2-2336
kJapanese	シテイタイチ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	TO MIGAKU TAIRANISURU
kJapaneseOn	SHI KII TOU TEI CHI
kJis1	2038
kKangXi	0160.400
kKorean	CI
kMandarin	dǐ
kMatthews	951
kMojiJoho	MJ007926
kMorohashi	02918
kPhonetic	1307
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21239+27.2.5
kRSUnicode	27.5
kSBGY	247.10 251.05
kSemanticVariant	U+7825<kMatthews
kTaiwanTelegraph	0619
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	315:063