U+581D "堝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
堝
U+581D "堝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (kanji in Japanese, hanja in Korean) that primarily means "crucible" or "cauldron," derived from its composition of the earth radical 土 and the phonetic component 咼. It is used in contexts related to metallurgy and cooking vessels, specifically referring to a pot or furnace for melting metals. In modern usage, it appears in compound words such as 坩堝 (gānguō) meaning "crucible," and its pronunciation varies across languages, being read as guō in Mandarin Chinese, ka in Japanese, and gwa in Korean. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block and has a Unicode decimal value of 22557.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+581D |
| 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 | 堝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 堝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA0 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x581D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000581D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u581d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B3FA |
| kCCCII | 21767A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5E60 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5E60 |
| kCangjie | GBBR |
| kCantonese | wo1 |
| kCihaiT | 325.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0470.260 |
| kDefinition | crucible |
| kEACC | 21767A |
| kFanqie | 古禾 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4712.7 |
| kGB1 | 5986 |
| kHangul | 과:1N |
| kHanYu | 10454.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10454.010:guō,wō |
| kIICore | ATJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0470.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10454.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0233.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5B76 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B3FA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5446 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3BFC |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-594D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5E60 |
| kJapanese | カ るつぼ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | RUTSUBO |
| kJapaneseOn | KA |
| kJis0 | 5238 |
| kKangXi | 0233.080 |
| kKorean | KWA |
| kMandarin | guō |
| kMatthews | 3729 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009147 |
| kMorohashi | 05247 |
| kNelson | 1105 |
| kPhonetic | 700 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4503+32.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.9 |
| kSBGY | 162.11 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "埚" U+57DA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 135.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | guō粵wo1 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 274:106 |
| kXHC1983 | 0422.111:guō |