U+57CE "城" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
城
U+57CE "城" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean that primarily means "castle," "city," or "fortress." It is composed of a semantic component related to earth or ground on the left and a phonetic element on the right, reflecting its construction-based meaning. Historically, the character denotes a walled settlement or a place of defense, and it appears in various place names, historical texts, and cultural contexts across East Asia, such as in the Chinese word for "city" (城市) and the Japanese term for "castle" (城, shiro).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+57CE |
| 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 | 城 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 城 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9F 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x57CE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000057CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u57ce |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ABB0 |
| kCCCII | 213837 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5052 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5052 |
| kCangjie | GIHS |
| kCantonese | sing4 |
| kCihaiT | 320.102 |
| kCowles | 3883 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0465.220 |
| kDefinition | castle; city, town; municipality |
| kEACC | 213837 |
| kFanqie | 是征 |
| kFenn | 347A |
| kFennIndex | 29.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4315.0 |
| kGB0 | 1939 |
| kGB1 | 1939 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0818e |
| kHangul | 성:0EN |
| kHanYu | 10438.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chéng(592) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10438.070:chéng |
| kHKGlyph | 0764 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0465.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10438.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0229.320 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3347 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ABB0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E6B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2E8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6072 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5052 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-506A |
| kJapanese | ジョウ セイ しろ きずく き |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1373 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIRO KIZUKU |
| kJapaneseOn | JOU |
| kJis0 | 3075 |
| kKangXi | 0229.320 |
| kKorean | SENG |
| kLau | 2726 2829 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1004 |
| kMandarin | chéng |
| kMatthews | 380 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2668 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009062 MJ009062:E0102 MJ009063:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 05086' 05086':E0102 05120:E0103 |
| kNelson | 1078 1079 |
| kPhonetic | 1212 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2515+32.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.6 |
| kSBGY | 191.29 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 132.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chéng粵sing4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1004 |
| kTang | *zhiɛng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 043.150:chéng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thành |
| kXerox | 243:252 |
| kXHC1983 | 0137.030:chéng |