U+581E "堞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

堞

U+581E "堞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a battlement or a crenellation, specifically the parapet or low wall built along the top of a city wall or fortress, often with alternating raised sections (merlons) and gaps (crenels) for defensive purposes. In classical and modern Chinese, it appears in compound terms related to military architecture, such as "城堞" (city battlements), and it also carries a secondary meaning in certain contexts as a noun for a small wall or dike. The character is composed of the radical "土" (earth) on the left, indicating its association with earth or construction, and the phonetic component "枼" (leaf, thin piece) on the right, which suggests its sound in Middle Chinese and influences its semantic field of thin, flat, or layered structures. Overall, this ideograph evokes the iconic image of ancient defensive walls that once defined the skyline of Chinese cities and forts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+581E
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	堞
HTML Hex Encoding	堞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA0 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x581E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000581E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u581e

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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kCNS1986	2-3A64
kCNS1992	2-3A64
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kCantonese	dip6
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kFourCornerCode	4419.4
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kGSR	0633f
kHangul	첩:0N
kHanYu	10460.050
kHanyuPinyin	10460.050:dié
kIICore	AGKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0470.270
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10460.050
kIRGKangXi	0233.090
kIRG_GSource	G0-5C26
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D8A2
kIRG_JSource	J14-247E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-EDCE
kIRG_KSource	K0-745C
kIRG_TSource	T2-3A64
kIRG_VSource	V2-8B37
kJapanese	チョウジョウかき
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:5060
kJIS0213	2,04,94
kJapaneseKun	HIMEGAKI
kJapaneseOn	TEU DEU
kJis1	2404
kKangXi	0233.090
kKarlgren	225
kKorean	CHEP
kMainlandTelegraph	1026
kMandarin	dié
kMatthews	6317
kMojiJoho	MJ009148
kMorohashi	05248
kPhonetic	1590
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17446+32.3.9
kRSUnicode	32.9
kSBGY	541.43
kSMSZD2003Index	135.19
kSMSZD2003Readings	dié粵dip6
kTaiwanTelegraph	1026
kTang	dhep
kTGHZ2013	076.080:dié
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	GHKMPT
kXerox	302:241
kXHC1983	0251.030:dié