U+5819 "堙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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

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