U+56F9 "囹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
囹
U+56F9 "囹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, representing the concept of a prison or jail, though it is rarely used in modern isolation. Instead, it appears almost exclusively in the compound word "囹圄" (língyǔ), which is a classical term for a prison or dungeon, often encountered in literary or historical contexts rather than in everyday speech. The character itself is composed of the enclosure radical "囗" (wéi, meaning enclosure or surround) encapsulating the phonetic component "令" (lìng), which gives the character its pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56F9 |
| 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 | 囹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 囹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9B 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56f9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CBF1 |
| kCCCII | 217421 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2571 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2571 |
| kCangjie | WOII |
| kCantonese | ling4 |
| kCihaiT | 303.101 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0445.220 |
| kDefinition | prison, enclosure |
| kEACC | 4B7421 |
| kFanqie | 郎丁 |
| kFenn | 438K |
| kFennIndex | 311.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6030.7 |
| kGB0 | 6482 |
| kGB1 | 6482 |
| kGSR | 0823i |
| kHangul | 령:0N 영:0 |
| kHanYu | 10717.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10717.110:líng |
| kIICore | AGTKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0445.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10717.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0218.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6072 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CBF1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-537A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D8BE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5637 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2571 |
| kJapanese | レイ リョウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3937 |
| kJapaneseOn | REI |
| kJis0 | 5190 |
| kKangXi | 0218.020 |
| kKorean | LYENG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0941 |
| kMandarin | líng |
| kMatthews | 4045 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1588 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008847 |
| kMorohashi | 04744 |
| kNelson | 1035 |
| kPhonetic | 812 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4461+31.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 31.5 |
| kSBGY | 195.32 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 124.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | líng粵ling4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0941 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 226.050:líng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 274:253 |
| kXHC1983 | 0720.060:líng |