U+5759 "坙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5759 "坙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that appears in historical texts and dictionaries, though its precise modern usage is limited. It belongs to the Kangxi Radical 32, meaning "earth" or "ground," and its structure combines components related to soil and a lower element resembling a stepping or stamping motion, often interpreted as "to tread on the ground" or "a path across the earth." This character is not commonly used in contemporary Chinese writing, but it is recognized in the Unicode standard to preserve its presence in classical literature and encoding for digital archives.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5759
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	坙
HTML Hex Encoding	坙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9D 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5759
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005759
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5759

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	237447
kCNS1986	E-645F
kCNS1992	3-645F
kCangjie	MVVG
kCantonese	ging1
kHanYu	10422.120
kIBMJapan	FA96
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10422.120
kIRGKangXi	0226.101
kIRG_GSource	GE-3453
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008954
kIRG_TSource	T3-645F
kJapanese	キョウ ケイ くき
kJapaneseOn	KEI
kKangXi	0226.101
kMandarin	jīng
kMojiJoho	MJ008954
kMorohashi	04962
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8416+32.3.4
kRSUnicode	32.4
kTotalStrokes	7