U+5779 "坹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5779 "坹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character classified under the Kangxi radical 土 (earth). Its pronunciation in Mandarin is typically rendered as xuè or jué, and its primary meanings relate to a deep, hollow cavity in the earth, such as a cave or a hole, though it is also encountered as a historical phonetic loan for other characters in classical texts. This ideograph is not part of common modern vocabulary, appearing instead in specialized dictionaries or ancient literature where it describes physical depressions in the terrain.

General Properties

Code Point U+5779
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 坹
HTML Hex Encoding 坹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x9D 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5779
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005779
C/C++/Java Escape \u5779

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 21746E
kCangjie GJC
kCantonese jyut6
kDaeJaweon 0462.200
kFanqie 呼決 胡決
kGB5 2182
kHanYu 10435.040
kHanyuPinyin 10435.040:xuè
kIRGDaeJaweon 0462.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10435.040
kIRGKangXi 0227.030
kIRG_GSource G5-3572
kIRG_JSource J1-374F
kIRG_KSource K2-2979
kIRG_TSource T4-2566
kJapanese ケツ ゲチ
kJapaneseOn KETSU GECHI
kJis1 2347
kKangXi 0227.030
kMandarin xuè
kMojiJoho MJ008983
kMorohashi 04999
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21331+32.3.5 C+21331+116.5.3
kRSUnicode 32.5
kSBGY 492.25 493.01
kTotalStrokes 8