U+583B "堻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
堻
U+583B "堻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely obsolete Chinese character that primarily appears in historical or classical texts. Its meaning is not widely documented in modern dictionaries, but it is generally understood to relate to the concept of "mud" or "sludge," possibly derived from components like the earth radical (土) combined with other phonetic or semantic elements. Due to its obscurity, "堻" has very limited practical use in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing, and it typically serves as a linguistic curiosity for scholars studying ancient scripts or rare sinographs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+583B |
| 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 | 堻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 堻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA0 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x583B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000583B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u583b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D8B3 |
| kCCCII | 237539 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3A75 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3A75 |
| kCangjie | EQG |
| kCantonese | zeon1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0472.130 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3510.4 |
| kHanYu | 10467.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10467.030:jīn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0472.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10467.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0234.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-346F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D8B3 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-009184 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3A75 |
| kJapanese | シン |
| kJapaneseKun | URUHOHI URUHOU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHIN |
| kKangXi | 0234.220 |
| kMandarin | jīn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009184 |
| kMorohashi | 05292 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.9 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |