U+5802 "堂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
堂
U+5802 "堂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of a hall, chamber, or main room, often with connotations of a formal or public space such as a court, temple, or lecture hall. In its traditional construction, the character combines a roof radical at the top, signifying a building or covering, with phonetic and semantic components below, including a sound element linked to the pronunciation "tang" and a bottom structure related to earth or a podium. This character is commonly used in compound words like 课堂 for classroom, 礼堂 for auditorium, and 教堂 for church or cathedral, reflecting its enduring role in naming spaces of gathering, learning, and ceremony across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5802 |
| 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 | 堂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 堂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA0 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5802 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005802 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5802 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0F3 |
| kCCCII | 213840 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5958 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5958 |
| kCangjie | FBRG |
| kCantonese | tong4 |
| kCihaiT | 322.601 |
| kCowles | 4435 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0469.020 |
| kDefinition | hall; government office |
| kEACC | 213840 |
| kFanqie | 徒郎 |
| kFenn | 585A |
| kFennIndex | 499.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9010.4 |
| kGB0 | 4435 |
| kGB1 | 4435 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0725s |
| kHangul | 당:0E |
| kHanYu | 10452.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | táng(180) tang(10) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10452.140:táng |
| kHKGlyph | 0774 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0469.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10452.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0231.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4C43 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0F3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4632 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D5DE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5351 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5958 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5073 |
| kJapanese | ドウ トウ たかどの |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2256 |
| kJapaneseKun | TAKADONO SUMAI |
| kJapaneseOn | DOU TOU |
| kJis0 | 3818 |
| kKangXi | 0231.230 |
| kKorean | TANG |
| kLau | 3121 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1016 |
| kMandarin | táng |
| kMatthews | 6107 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3217 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009123 |
| kMorohashi | 05207 |
| kNelson | 1365 |
| kPhonetic | 1167 1382 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3210+32.3.8 C+3210+42.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.8 |
| kSBGY | 178.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 134.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | táng粵tong4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1016 |
| kTang | *dhɑng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 360.010:táng |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đường |
| kXerox | 245:156 |
| kXHC1983 | 1119.010:táng |