U+577E "坾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+577E "坾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for "earth" or "soil" on the left side and the phonetic component "zhu" on the right, meaning a pestle or a tool used for pounding or grinding in ancient contexts. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, representing a traditional logogram used in classical Chinese texts, often associated with agricultural or domestic implements. Its usage is rare in modern Chinese, where it has largely been replaced by more common characters with similar meanings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+577E
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	坾
HTML Hex Encoding	坾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9D 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x577E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000577E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u577e

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	21746F
kCangjie	GJMN
kCantonese	cyu5
kDaeJaweon	0462.280
kGB5	2168
kHanYu	10435.030
kHanyuPinyin	10435.030:zhù
kIRGDaeJaweon	0462.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10435.030
kIRGKangXi	0227.120
kIRG_GSource	G5-3564
kIRG_HSource	H-98A5
kIRG_JSource	J1-3753
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3B86
kIRG_TSource	T4-2565
kJapanese	チョ ジョ
kJapaneseOn	CHO JO
kJis1	2351
kKangXi	0227.120
kMandarin	zhù
kMojiJoho	MJ008989
kMorohashi	05008
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21332+32.3.5
kRSUnicode	32.5
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	H