U+56E8 "囨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+56E8 "囨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that appears in historical and classical texts. Its meaning is obscure and not commonly listed in modern standard dictionaries, but it is considered a variant form of the character 平, which means "peaceful" or "flat." The character is composed of the radical 囗 (enclosure) surrounding the component 平, suggesting a semantic link to a place or state of balance. In contemporary use, it is primarily of interest to philologists and scholars of ancient Chinese writing, serving as a minor but notable artifact in the vast corpus of CJK unified ideographs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56E8
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	囨
HTML Hex Encoding	囨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9B 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56E8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056E8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56e8

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

kCangjie	WMF
kCantonese	pin1
kDaeJaweon	0444.140
kHanYu	10714.080
kHanyuPinyin	10714.080:piān
kIRGDaeJaweon	0444.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10714.080
kIRGKangXi	0217.110
kIRG_GSource	GE-343A
kIRG_JSource	J14-2456
kIRG_TSource	TF-2350
kJapanese	ヘン
kJIS0213	2,04,54
kJapaneseOn	HEN
kJis1	2291
kKangXi	0217.110
kMandarin	piān
kMojiJoho	MJ008831
kMorohashi	04708
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17411+31.3.4
kRSUnicode	31.4
kTotalStrokes	7