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
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
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 |