U+5715 "圕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5715 "圕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a specialized Chinese character that represents the concept of a "library," as it is a contracted form combining elements of the characters for "book" (書) within a surrounding enclosure (囗). Originally coined in the early 20th century by Chinese educator and librarian Du Dingyou, it was designed to streamline the writing of the term for library, traditionally written as 圖書館. Although the character is recognized in Unicode and appears in some library contexts, it remains relatively obscure in general use, as the full three-character term is still standard in modern Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5715
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	圕
HTML Hex Encoding	圕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9C 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5715
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005715
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5715

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	217431
kCNS1986	E-4052
kCNS1992	3-4052
kCangjie	WLGA
kCantonese	syu1
kCihaiT	308.302
kDaeJaweon	0452.070
kDefinition	library
kEACC	217431
kHanYu	10724.111
kIRGDaeJaweon	0452.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10724.111
kIRGKangXi	0220.151
kIRG_GSource	GE-3446
kIRG_HSource	H-9CEE
kIRG_JSource	J14-245A
kIRG_TSource	T3-4052
kJapanese	サイ
kJIS0213	2,04,58
kJapaneseOn	TOSHOKAN SHO
kJis1	2309
kKangXi	0220.151
kMandarin	tú
kMatthews	6531
kMojiJoho	MJ008879
kMorohashi	04829'
kPhonetic	1235 1364
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14418+31.3.10
kRSUnicode	31.10
kSemanticVariant	U+5716<kMatthews
kTaiwanTelegraph	0959
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	302:157
kXHC1983	1163.040:tú