U+585E "塞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
塞
U+585E "塞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to block," "to stop up," or "to fill," and can also refer to a "fortress," "frontier pass," or a "place of strategic importance." Composed of the radical for "earth" (土) at the bottom and components related to a roof and a barrier above, it visually conveys the idea of sealing or obstructing a space. In modern usage, it appears in words like sāi (塞, to stuff or block), sài (塞, as in fortress or frontier, such as the Great Wall passes), and sè (塞, in formal or compound terms like "color" in saí meaning obstructed). Its versatility makes it common in everyday language, historical texts, and idioms, reflecting actions of physical blockage or strategic defense.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+585E |
| 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 | 塞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 塞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA1 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x585E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000585E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u585e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6EB |
| kCCCII | 21384C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6352 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6352 |
| kCangjie | JTCG |
| kCantonese | sak1 |
| kCihaiT | 326.502 |
| kCowles | 3592 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0474.020 |
| kDefinition | stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier; fortress |
| kEACC | 21384C |
| kFanqie | 先代 蘇則 |
| kFenn | 100A |
| kFennIndex | 427.11 428.03 431.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3010.4 |
| kGB0 | 4091 |
| kGB1 | 4091 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0908a |
| kHangul | 새:0E 색:0N |
| kHanYu | 10475.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sāi(75) sè(13) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10475.010:sāi,sè,sài |
| kHKGlyph | 0784 |
| kIICore | AGTJHMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0474.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10475.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0236.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-487B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6EB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A49 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5F1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F5D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6352 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-507E |
| kJapanese | サイ ソク ふさぐ みちる とりで |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3025 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUSAGU MICHIRU TORIDE |
| kJapaneseOn | SOKU SAI |
| kJis0 | 2641 |
| kKangXi | 0236.090 |
| kKorean | SAY SAYK |
| kLau | 2641 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1049 |
| kMandarin | sāi |
| kMatthews | 5446 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2545 3445b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009220 |
| kMorohashi | 05349 |
| kNelson | 1324 |
| kPhonetic | 1117 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2105+32.3.10 C+2105+40.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.10 |
| kSBGY | 390.10 530.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 137.15 171.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sāi粵sak1 sè粵sak1 sài粵coi3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1049 |
| kTang | *sək *sə̀i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 319.130:sāi 319.160:sài 322.010:sè |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tắc |
| kXerox | 247:144 |
| kXHC1983 | 0981.060:sāi 0981.130:sài 0989.070:sè |