U+57AB "垫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+57AB "垫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to cushion," "to pad," or "to fill in," as well as referring to a "mat" or "cushion" itself. It is composed of the radical for "earth" or "ground" (土) on top of a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic connection to adding a layer beneath something for support or protection. In modern usage, it appears in common words like "dianzi" (垫子, meaning a mat or pad) and "dianjiao" (垫脚, meaning to stand on tiptoe or to use a footstool), and it is frequently employed in contexts ranging from furniture and bedding to financial terms such as "diankuan" (垫款, for advancing a payment). The character is classified under the Kangxi radical 32 (土) and is widely used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+57AB
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 垫
HTML Hex Encoding 垫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x9E 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x57AB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000057AB
C/C++/Java Escape \u57ab

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 217546
kCangjie QIG
kCantonese din6
kDefinition advance money, pay for another
kEACC 27385A
kFourCornerCode 5510
kGB0 2170
kHanYu 10437.040
kHanyuPinlu diàn(24)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10437.040
kIRGKangXi 0228.291
kIRG_GSource G0-3566
kIRG_TSource TF-2971
kTGH 2013:1390
kKangXi 0228.291
kMainlandTelegraph 1067
kMandarin diàn
kPhonetic 69*
kRSUnicode 32.6
kSMSZD2003Index 132.10
kTGHZ2013 074.100:diàn
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "墊" U+588A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0242.050:diàn