U+578A "垊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+578A "垊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is classified as a rare or obscure logogram, primarily found in classical or specialized vocabulary. Its composition combines the radical for "earth" or "soil" (土, tǔ) with a phonetic component, but unlike common characters such as "地震" (earthquake) or "土壤" (soil), "垊" does not appear in modern standard Chinese usage and is not listed in major contemporary dictionaries like the Xiandai Hanyu Cidian. The character's meaning and pronunciation are uncertain, with some historical references suggesting it may be an ancient variant or a personal name element, likely representing a concept related to earth or a place. Without attestation in general literature or digital corpora, "垊" remains a typographic curiosity, seldom encountered outside of specialized Unicode tables or ancient text databases.

General Properties

Code Point U+578A
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 垊
HTML Hex Encoding 垊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x9E 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x578A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000578A
C/C++/Java Escape \u578a

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 217475
kCNS1986 E-6460
kCNS1992 3-6460
kCangjie GRVP
kCantonese man4
kEACC 217475
kHanYu 10435.131
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10435.131
kIRGKangXi 0227.271
kIRG_GSource GE-3456
kIRG_HSource H-96F3
kIRG_TSource T3-6460
kKangXi 0227.271
kMandarin min
kRSUnicode 32.5
kTaiwanTelegraph 9748
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 H