U+56F8 "囸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+56F8 "囸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that falls under the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block. It is composed of the radical for "enclosure" or "walled city" (囗) surrounding the character for "sun" or "day" (日), and it generally conveys a meaning related to "correctness" or "uprightness," often serving as an archaic or variant form of the character 正 (zhèng, meaning "correct" or "straight"). In classical contexts, it appears in certain historical texts and older writing systems, but it is not commonly employed in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean languages, making it a point of interest for scholars of ancient scripts and typographic history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56F8
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	囸
HTML Hex Encoding	囸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9B 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56F8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56f8

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	217378
kCNS1986	E-277D
kCNS1992	3-277D
kCangjie	WMYM
kCantonese	jat6
kDaeJaweon	0445.210
kGB5	2588
kHanYu	10716.080
kIRGDaeJaweon	0445.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10716.080
kIRGKangXi	0218.010
kIRG_GSource	G5-3978
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008846
kIRG_TSource	T3-277D
kJapanese	ジツ
kKangXi	0218.010
kMandarin	rì
kMojiJoho	MJ008846
kMorohashi	04743
kRSUnicode	31.5
kTotalStrokes	8