U+57A9 "垩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
垩
U+57A9 "垩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means “white clay” or “chalk,” and it is also used as a component in the word for “vomit,” as in the traditional term for “to throw up.” In its classical and modern usage, this ideograph conveys the concept of a white, earthy substance suitable for coating or writing, and it appears as a standard character in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems. The character is composed of the radical for “earth” or “soil” combined with phonetic elements, reflecting its connection to natural materials and practical applications in everyday language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+57A9 |
| 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 | 垩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 垩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9E 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x57A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000057A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u57a9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27383E |
| kCangjie | MCG |
| kCantonese | ok3 |
| kDefinition | holy, sacred, sage; simplification of 堊 chalk; daub with chalk |
| kEACC | 27383E |
| kFourCornerCode | 1010 |
| kGB0 | 5949 |
| kHanYu | 10437.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10437.100:shèng,è |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10437.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0228.291 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5B51 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3763 |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-2860 |
| kJapanese | セイ |
| kTGH | 2013:4129 |
| kJapaneseKun | HIJIRI |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI SHOU |
| kJis1 | 2367 |
| kKangXi | 0228.291 |
| kKorean | SENG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1019 |
| kMandarin | è |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009032 |
| kMorohashi | 05085 |
| kPhonetic | 2* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+21340+32.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 132.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 087.050:è |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "堊" U+580A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0284.010:è |