U+5709 "圉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5709 "圉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically conveys the meanings of a stable or prison for horses, as well as the act of restraining or confining, often linked to the rearing of animals in ancient China. Its structure combines the enclosure radical "囗," signifying an enclosed space, with the character for "horse" (馬), reflecting its original reference to a fenced area for taming or holding horses. Over time, the character has also taken on broader metaphorical uses related to detention or restriction, appearing in classical texts and modern compounds where it denotes limitation or a place of confinement. This character is classified under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, used across East Asian writing systems with consistent form but occasional variations in pronunciation and nuance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5709
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	圉
HTML Hex Encoding	圉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9C 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5709
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005709
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5709

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

kBigFive	B0EB
kCCCII	21742D
kCNS1986	1-5950
kCNS1992	1-5950
kCangjie	WGTJ
kCantonese	jyu5
kCihaiT	303.303
kDaeJaweon	0447.040
kDefinition	stable, corral, enclosure; frontier, border
kEACC	21742D
kFanqie	魚巨
kFourCornerCode	6040.1
kGB0	6486
kGB1	6486
kGSR	0081a
kHangul	어:1N
kHanYu	10720.070
kHanyuPinyin	10720.070:yǔ
kIICore	AGT
kIRGDaeJaweon	0447.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10720.070
kIRGKangXi	0219.110
kIRG_GSource	G0-6076
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B0EB
kIRG_JSource	J0-537E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3B49
kIRG_KSource	K1-6726
kIRG_TSource	T1-5950
kJapanese	ギョ ゴ うまかい ひとや
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4837
kJapaneseKun	HITOYA UMAKAI
kJapaneseOn	GYO GO
kJis0	5194
kKangXi	0219.110
kKorean	E
kMainlandTelegraph	0947
kMandarin	yǔ
kMatthews	7659
kMeyerWempe	3640d
kMojiJoho	MJ008863
kMorohashi	04793
kPhonetic	438 1434 1615
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4465+31.3.8
kRSUnicode	31.8
kSBGY	256.08
kSMSZD2003Index	125.11
kSMSZD2003Readings	yǔ粵jyu5
kTaiwanTelegraph	0947
kTang	ngiǔ
kTGHZ2013	448.020:yǔ
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	274:255
kXHC1983	1413.030:yǔ