U+571B "圛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+571B "圛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that has been historically used in the context of classical literature, specifically as a variant or alternative form for the word meaning "to rise" or "to ascend," often associated with the sun or celestial bodies. Its structure combines the radical for "enclosure" or "border" (囗) with the phonetic component "睪" (yi), which hints at its pronunciation and semantic roots in ancient texts. Over time, its usage has become largely obsolete in modern Chinese and Japanese, surviving mainly in specialized dictionaries, historical records, or as a point of scholarly interest in the study of script evolution.

General Properties

Code Point	U+571B
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	圛
HTML Hex Encoding	圛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9C 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x571B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000571B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u571b

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	E948
kCCCII	217436
kCNS1986	2-5652
kCNS1992	2-5652
kCangjie	WWLJ
kCantonese	jik6
kDaeJaweon	0453.110
kDefinition	used in place names; stratus
kEACC	217436
kFanqie	羊益
kFourCornerCode	6040.1
kGB3	2353
kGSR	0790b
kHanYu	10726.150
kHanyuPinyin	10726.150:yì
kIRGDaeJaweon	0453.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10726.150
kIRGKangXi	0221.110
kIRG_GSource	G3-3755
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E948
kIRG_JSource	J1-372B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3B54
kIRG_KSource	K2-295C
kIRG_TSource	T2-5652
kJapanese	エキ ヤク
kJapaneseKun	MEGURIYUKU
kJapaneseOn	EKI YAKU
kJis1	2311
kKangXi	0221.110
kKorean	YEK
kMandarin	yì
kMojiJoho	MJ008887 MJ008887:E0101 MJ008888:E0102
kMorohashi	04850 04850:E0101
kPhonetic	1560
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19278+31.3.13
kRSUnicode	31.13
kSBGY	517.23
kTaiwanTelegraph	8214
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	276:043