U+5850 "塐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5850 "塐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that appears in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, primarily used in classical and literary contexts rather than in modern everyday language. Its meaning and usage are closely related to the character "塑" (sù), which refers to modeling or shaping, particularly in the context of clay or wax figures, and it can also carry connotations of creating or forming something. Historically, "塐" is a variant form found in traditional texts and older dictionaries, where it describes the act of sculpting or fashioning figures, distinguishing it slightly through its radical composition as it incorporates the earth radical "土" instead of the more common "塑". Though largely replaced in simplified Chinese by "塑", it remains a recognized variant in Unicode for representing ancient or specialized writings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5850
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	塐
HTML Hex Encoding	塐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA1 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5850
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005850
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5850

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	21773B
kCNS1986	E-4057
kCNS1992	3-4057
kCangjie	GQMF
kCantonese	sou3
kDaeJaweon	0473.020
kDefinition	model in clay, sculpt; plastics
kFanqie	桑故
kFennIndex	475.04
kGB5	2250
kHangul	소:1N
kHanYu	10470.020
kIRGDaeJaweon	0473.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10470.020
kIRGKangXi	0235.090
kIRG_GSource	G5-3652
kIRG_JSource	J1-3831
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3C05
kIRG_KSource	K1-6469
kIRG_TSource	T3-4057
kJapanese	ソ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	DEKU
kJapaneseOn	SO
kJis1	2417
kKangXi	0235.090
kKorean	SO
kMandarin	sù
kMatthews	5492
kMeyerWempe	2840a
kMojiJoho	MJ009200
kMorohashi	05327
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21353+32.3.10
kRSUnicode	32.10
kSBGY	369.23
kSemanticVariant	U+5851<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kTotalStrokes	13