U+53A1 "厡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+53A1 "厡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used primarily in classical or historical texts, where it represents an ancient or variant form of the character commonly known as "原" (yuán), meaning "origin," "source," or "plain." Its structure combines the radical for "cliff" (厂) with elements suggesting water or a spring, conveying the idea of a natural source or beginning. In modern standard Chinese, this specific glyph is rare and largely replaced by its more conventional counterpart, though it may appear in specialized contexts such as calligraphy, historical documents, or in the study of character evolution.

General Properties

Code Point	U+53A1
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	厡
HTML Hex Encoding	厡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8E 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x53A1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000053A1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u53a1

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	236C31
kCangjie	MHAE
kCantonese	jyun4
kDaeJaweon	0370.020
kHanYu	10075.160
kIRGDaeJaweon	0370.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10075.160
kIRGKangXi	0162.150
kIRG_GSource	GE-3324
kIRG_JSource	J1-344B
kIRG_MSource	MD-53A1
kIRG_TSource	T4-3068
kJapanese	ゲン はら
kJapaneseOn	GEN
kJis1	2043
kKangXi	0162.150
kMandarin	yuán
kMojiJoho	MJ007942
kMorohashi	02982
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21240+27.2.9
kRSUnicode	27.9
kTotalStrokes	11