U+5805 "堅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5805 "堅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that commonly means "hard," "strong," "firm," or "solid," both in a literal physical sense and in a metaphorical sense such as steadfastness or resolve. It is composed of the radical for "earth" or "soil" (土) combined with other elements that suggest compactness and durability, reflecting its core meaning of something that is tough and unyielding. This character appears in various compound words and phrases in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, such as "堅固" (jiāngù, meaning "sturdy" or "secure") and "堅持" (jiānchí, meaning "to persist" or "uphold"). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it represents a foundational concept of strength and resilience shared across multiple East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+5805
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 堅
HTML Hex Encoding 堅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA0 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5805
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005805
C/C++/Java Escape \u5805

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

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kCCCII 21383F
kCNS1986 1-5952
kCNS1992 1-5952
kCangjie SEG
kCantonese gin1
kCihaiT 323.301
kCowles 1660
kDaeJaweon 0469.050
kDefinition hard, strong, firm; resolute
kEACC 21383F
kFanqie 古賢
kFenn 643C
kFennIndex 58.11
kFourCornerCode 7710.4
kGB1 2865
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0368c
kHangul 견:0E
kHanYu 10451.040
kHanyuPinlu jiān(695)
kHanyuPinyin 10451.040:jiān
kHKGlyph 0770
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0469.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10451.040
kIRGKangXi 0232.030
kIRG_GSource G1-3C61
kIRG_HSource HB1-B0ED
kIRG_JSource J0-3778
kIRG_KPSource KP0-CEF3
kIRG_KSource K0-4C31
kIRG_TSource T1-5952
kIRG_VSource V1-5074
kJapanese ケン かたい
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun KATAI KATAKU
kJapaneseOn KEN
kJis0 2388
kKangXi 0232.030
kKarlgren 369
kKorean KYEN
kLau 908
kMandarin jiān
kMatthews 825
kMeyerWempe 1149
kMojiJoho MJ009126 MJ009126:E0101 MJ057223:E0102
kMorohashi 05210 05210:E0101
kNelson 1057 1096
kPhonetic 619
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1870+32.3.9
kRSUnicode 32.8
kSBGY 089.39 133.20
kSimplifiedVariant "坚" U+575A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 134.07 563.13
kSMSZD2003Readings jiān粵gin1
kTaiwanTelegraph 1017
kTang *gen
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese kiên
kXerox 247:101
kXHC1983 0548.011:jiān