U+5819 "堙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
堙
U+5819 "堙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to block up," "to dam," or "to bury," and it is often used in classical texts and historical contexts. This character is composed of the radical for earth or soil (土) and the phonetic component, reflecting its association with actions involving earth or construction. In ancient Chinese literature, such as the "Zuo Zhuan," it appears in descriptions of military tactics, like damming rivers to create defensive barriers or flooding enemy positions. While not a common character in modern everyday usage, it retains significance in scholarly research of classical texts and in specialized discussions of historical engineering and warfare.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5819 |
| 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 | 堙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 堙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA0 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5819 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005819 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5819 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D8A1 |
| kCCCII | 217669 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3A63 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3A63 |
| kCangjie | GMWG |
| kCantonese | jan1 |
| kCihaiT | 325.101 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0470.200 |
| kDefinition | bury; dam, block up |
| kEACC | 217669 |
| kFanqie | 於眞 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4111.4 |
| kGB0 | 6007 |
| kGB1 | 6007 |
| kGSR | 0483d |
| kHangul | 인:1N |
| kHanYu | 10461.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10461.060:yīn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0470.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10461.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0232.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5C27 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D8A1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5445 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3BFB |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A5D |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3A63 |
| kJapanese | イン ふさぐ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5064 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUSAGU |
| kJapaneseOn | IN |
| kJis0 | 5237 |
| kKangXi | 0232.230 |
| kKarlgren | 278 |
| kKorean | IN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1025 |
| kMandarin | yīn |
| kMatthews | 7414 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3819c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009142 MJ009142:E0102 MJ009143:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 05239 05239:E0102 |
| kNelson | 1106 |
| kPhonetic | 1478 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4502+32.3.9 V+7986+32.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.9 |
| kSBGY | 101.47 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5794<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+967B<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 135.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yīn粵jan1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1025 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 437.030:yīn |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 302:176 |
| kXHC1983 | 1374.050:yīn |