U+579C "垜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

垜

U+579C "垜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) primarily used in classical or literary contexts, not common in modern standard Mandarin. Its traditional meaning relates to a mound, heap, or pile of earth, particularly as seen in the radical 土 (earth). The character may also function as a variant of other similar glyphs, such as 垛, which denotes a battlement or a stack, but "垜" itself carries the nuance of an earthen accumulation or a low natural elevation in terrain. In historical texts, it was occasionally employed in place names or poetic descriptions of landscapes, and its usage underscores the complexity of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character system, where subtle graphical differences can convey distinct yet related concepts in different historical or regional contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+579C
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	垜
HTML Hex Encoding	垜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9E 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x579C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000579C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u579c

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

kCNS1986	E-2B70
kCNS1992	3-2B70
kCangjie	GNSD
kCantonese	do2
kDaeJaweon	0464.070
kDefinition	heap; buttress; battlements
kEACC	217552
kFenn	216aK
kFennIndex	530.03
kHanYu	10441.010
kIRGDaeJaweon	0464.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10441.010
kIRGKangXi	0228.090
kIRG_GSource	GE-3457
kIRG_HSource	H-8B7D
kIRG_JSource	J13-2F4A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3B9D
kIRG_KSource	K2-2A27
kIRG_TSource	T3-2B70
kJapanese	ダタあずち
kJIS0213	1,15,42
kJapaneseKun	TSUMIKASARERU
kJapaneseOn	DA
kJis1	2359
kKangXi	0228.090
kMandarin	duǒ
kMeyerWempe	3177a
kMojiJoho	MJ009018
kMorohashi	05049
kNelson	1074
kPhonetic	1366
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14426+32.3.6
kRSUnicode	32.6
kSemanticVariant	U+579B<kFenn
kSMSZD2003Index	132.08
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXHC1983	0280.131:duǒ 0281.111:duò