U+56FC "囼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+56FC "囼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and somewhat obscure Chinese character that historically appears in classical texts and certain dialects, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin. Its meaning is related to the concept of a "platform" or "terrace," often associated with an elevated or raised area, and it is constructed with the "enclosure" radical (囗) surrounding the phonetic component 台 (tái), which can also independently signify a platform or stage. In ancient usage, it occasionally served as a variant or alternative form for the more common character "台" in specific contexts, particularly in references to geographical features or architectural structures. Today, it is primarily of interest to scholars of Chinese paleography and those studying rare or historical characters in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) script system.

General Properties

Code Point U+56FC
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 囼
HTML Hex Encoding 囼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x9B 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x56FC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000056FC
C/C++/Java Escape \u56fc

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 21737D
kCNS1986 E-2821
kCNS1992 3-2821
kCangjie WIR
kCantonese toi1
kDaeJaweon 0446.060
kGB5 2589
kHanYu 10717.160
kIRGDaeJaweon 0446.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10717.160
kIRGKangXi 0218.041
kIRG_GSource G5-3979
kIRG_JSource JMJ-008850
kIRG_TSource T3-2821
kJapanese タイ
kKangXi 0218.041
kMandarin tāi
kMojiJoho MJ008850
kMorohashi 04751
kRSUnicode 31.5
kTotalStrokes 8