U+5840 "塀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5840 "塀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese and Korean, where it is used primarily in East Asian languages in the context of architecture and enclosures. The character represents a pì in Mandarin pinyin and ヘイ (hei) in Japanese on'yomi, and its fundamental meaning is a wall, fence, or screen, specifically a structure that divides or encloses a space. In Japanese, it is notably used in compound words such as 塀 (hei, meaning a fence or wall) and appears in terms like 板塀 (ita-bei, a wooden fence) or 塀越し (hei-goshi, over a fence). This character is composed of the radical 土 (tǔ, meaning "earth" or "ground") on the left, with the right side serving as a phonetic component, and it is classified as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph within Unicode’s block for common East Asian characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+5840
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 塀
HTML Hex Encoding 塀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA1 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5840
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005840
C/C++/Java Escape \u5840

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

kCCCII 21775F
kCangjie GSTT
kCantonese ping4
kDaeJaweon 0472.230
kDefinition wall, fence
kEACC 21775F
kFourCornerCode 4714.1
kHangul 병:1
kHanYu 10469.011
kIICore AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0472.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10469.011
kIRGKangXi 0234.271
kIRG_GSource GE-3471
kIRG_HSource H-9ABB
kIRG_JSource J0-4A3D
kIRG_KSource K1-6173
kIRG_TSource TF-397D
kJapanese ヘイ
kJoyoKanji 2010
kJapaneseKun KAKI
kJapaneseOn HEI
kJis0 4229
kKangXi 0234.271
kKorean PYENG
kMandarin píng
kMojiJoho MJ009190 MJ030253:FE00 MJ009190:E0102 MJ030253:E0103
kMorohashi 05316 05316:E0102
kNelson 1103 1131
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3597+32.3.9
kRSUnicode 32.9
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HJ