U+588D "墍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+588D "墍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or historical Chinese character that is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin, with its traditional meaning relating to construction or plastering, specifically referring to the act of coating or spreading mud or plaster onto a surface, such as a wall, as part of building or repairing. It shares semantic roots with other earth or clay related characters, and its structure combines the radical for "earth" or "ground" (土) with a phonetic component that hints at its pronunciation, which in historical Chinese texts is often associated with activities like finishing walls or applying mortar. Due to its specialized and archaic nature, this character appears primarily in classical literature or historical references rather than in everyday modern writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+588D
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	墍
HTML Hex Encoding	墍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA2 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x588D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000588D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u588d

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

kCNS1986	E-4645
kCNS1992	3-4645
kCangjie	HUG
kCantonese	kei3
kCihaiT	328.302
kDaeJaweon	0476.110
kDefinition	paint, decorate
kHangul	기:1N
kHanYu	10481.031
kIRGDaeJaweon	0476.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10481.031
kIRGKangXi	0238.020
kIRG_GSource	GE-3523
kIRG_JSource	J14-252B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3C17
kIRG_KSource	K1-5B66
kIRG_TSource	T3-4645
kJapanese	キ ギ ケ カイ ガイ
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	2,05,11
kJapaneseKun	NURU KAZARU TORU IKOU
kJapaneseOn	KI GI KE KAI GAI
kJis1	2434
kKangXi	0238.020
kKarlgren	324
kKorean	KI
kMandarin	xì
kMatthews	454
kMojiJoho	MJ009271 MJ009271:E0101 MJ009270:E0102 MJ009272:E0103
kMorohashi	05423:E0102
kPhonetic	599B
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17455+32.3.12
kRSUnicode	32.11
kTaiwanTelegraph	1069
kTotalStrokes	14