U+56F2 "囲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

囲

U+56F2 "囲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to surround" or "enclose," and it is often used in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean writing systems as a variant or simplified form of the more common character 圍 (wéi in Mandarin). In Japanese, it appears in words like 囲む (kakomu, meaning "to surround") and 環境 (kankyō, meaning "environment"), highlighting its role in describing physical or conceptual boundaries. Its graphical form depicts an enclosure or boundary, typically rendered as an upright rectangle with inner components, and it is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block to support East Asian text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56F2
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	囲
HTML Hex Encoding	囲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9B 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56F2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056F2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56f2

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	393770
kCNS1986	E-2527
kCNS1992	3-2527
kCangjie	WTT
kCantonese	tung1
kDaeJaweon	0445.050
kDefinition	surround, encircle, corral; whip
kEACC	393770
kFourCornerCode	6055.0
kHanYu	10714.010
kHanyuPinyin	10714.010:tōng
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0445.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10714.010
kIRGKangXi	0217.251
kIRG_GSource	GE-343E
kIRG_JSource	J0-304F
kIRG_KSource	K2-2953
kIRG_TSource	T3-2527
kJapanese	イトウかこむかこうかこいかこみ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	KAKOMU KAKOI KAKOU MUCHI
kJapaneseOn	I TOU
kJis0	1647
kKangXi	0217.251
kKorean	WI
kMandarin	tōng
kMojiJoho	MJ008841
kMorohashi	04722
kNelson	1032
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1171+31.3.4
kRSUnicode	31.4
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	J