U+5853 "塓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

塓

U+5853 "塓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to plaster or to daub, often referring to the act of applying mortar or mud to a wall during construction. It is composed of the radical "土" (earth or soil) on the left, indicating its connection to building materials, and the phonetic component "冥" (dark or gloomy) on the right, which suggests its pronunciation in Mandarin as "mì". In historical texts, this character appears in the context of ancient building practices, such as in the Classic of Poetry, where it describes the process of smoothing walls. While not commonly used in modern everyday Chinese, it remains a specialized term for traditional architecture and is included in the standard CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode for digital representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5853
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	塓
HTML Hex Encoding	塓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA1 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5853
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005853
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5853

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	DCE2
kCCCII	217747
kCNS1986	2-4229
kCNS1992	2-4229
kCangjie	GBAC
kCantonese	mik6
kCihaiT	325.602
kDaeJaweon	0473.050
kDefinition	plaster
kEACC	217747
kFanqie	莫狄
kFourCornerCode	4718.0
kGB3	2070
kGB8	9055
kGSR	0841e
kHanYu	10476.080
kHanyuPinyin	10476.080:mì
kIRGDaeJaweon	0473.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10476.080
kIRGKangXi	0235.120
kIRG_GSource	G3-3466
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DCE2
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-009204
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3C02
kIRG_KSource	K2-2A64
kIRG_TSource	T2-4229
kJapanese	ベキミャク
kJapaneseKun	NURU
kJapaneseOn	BEKI MYAKU
kKangXi	0235.120
kMainlandTelegraph	8237
kMandarin	mì
kMojiJoho	MJ009204
kMorohashi	05330
kPhonetic	902
kRSUnicode	32.10
kSBGY	523.38
kTaiwanTelegraph	1056
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	301:170