U+5837 "堷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5837 "堷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in historical and classical texts, with its meaning and usage often associated with a type of wall or enclosure, specifically referencing a low wall or a partition within a structure, or sometimes interpreted as a variant of the character for "to cover" or "to shade." Its composition combines the radical "土" (earth or soil) on the left side, indicating an earth-related object, with the phonetic component "音" (sound or tone) on the right, suggesting possible connections to architectural features in ancient Chinese contexts. This character is rarely used in modern standard Chinese, but it appears in specialized lexicons, historical documents, and East Asian typography where preserved.

General Properties

Code Point U+5837
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 堷
HTML Hex Encoding 堷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA0 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5837
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005837
C/C++/Java Escape \u5837

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 D87E
kCCCII 237538
kCNS1986 2-3A62
kCNS1992 2-3A62
kCangjie GYTA
kCantonese jam3
kDaeJaweon 0472.060
kFourCornerCode 4016.1
kHanYu 10466.020
kHanyuPinyin 10466.020:yìn,pǒu
kIRGDaeJaweon 0472.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10466.020
kIRGKangXi 0234.120
kIRG_GSource GE-346E
kIRG_HSource HB2-D87E
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009179
kIRG_KSource K2-2A5E
kIRG_TSource T2-3A62
kIRG_VSource V1-507B
kJapanese アン オン
kJapaneseOn AN ON
kKangXi 0234.120
kMandarin yìn
kMojiJoho MJ009179 MJ009179:E0100 MJ009180:E0101
kMorohashi 05282 05282:E0100
kRSUnicode 32.9
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kVietnamese om