U+57BB "垻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
垻
U+57BB "垻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in historical and regional contexts, primarily representing a type of dam or dike built for water management in rice paddies or irrigation systems. Its composition combines the earth radical "土" with the phonetic component "貝" (meaning shell or valuables), reflecting its semantic tie to earthen structures. This character appears in Classical Chinese texts and retains specialized usage in some modern dialects or technical terminology related to agriculture and hydrology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+57BB |
| 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 | 垻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 垻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9E 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x57BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000057BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u57bb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 21756B |
| kCNS1986 | E-3030 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3030 |
| kCangjie | GBUC |
| kCantonese | bui3 |
| kCihaiT | 320.505 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0465.010 |
| kDefinition | an embankment; a slope over which boat pass |
| kEACC | 4B3871 |
| kFanqie | 必駕 |
| kFennIndex | 375.05 |
| kHanYu | 10444.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10444.020:bà,bèi |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0465.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10444.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0229.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-345D |
| kIRG_HSource | H-96F1 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-009042 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3BB3 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3030 |
| kJapanese | ハイ ハ ヘ |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUTSUMI |
| kJapaneseOn | HAI HA HE |
| kKangXi | 0229.100 |
| kMandarin | bà |
| kMatthews | 4843 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2199a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009042 |
| kMorohashi | 05098 |
| kPhonetic | 997 1083 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.7 |
| kSBGY | 423.29 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+58E9<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "坝" U+575D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9741 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |