U+5899 "墙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5899 "墙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "wall" and is used in both traditional and simplified Chinese scripts, though it appears identical in both. This ideograph represents a physical barrier or partition, such as a building wall or a city rampart, and is composed of radical components that often convey the concept of earth or enclosure, reflecting its structural nature. In a broader cultural context, the character also appears in metaphorical expressions, such as referring to social or political barriers, and is commonly found in compound words like 围墙 (wéiqiáng, "enclosure wall") or 墙壁 (qiángbì, "wall surface"), making it a fundamental term in Chinese language related to architecture and figurative boundaries.

General Properties

Code Point U+5899
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 墙
HTML Hex Encoding 墙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA2 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5899
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005899
C/C++/Java Escape \u5899

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 274A46
kCangjie GGCW
kCantonese coeng4
kDefinition wall
kEACC 274A46
kFourCornerCode 4416
kGB0 3929
kHanYu 10479.060
kHanyuPinlu qiáng(264)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10479.060
kIRGKangXi 0238.191
kIRG_GSource G0-473D
kIRG_HSource H-8BAF
kTGH 2013:3054
kKangXi 0238.191
kMainlandTelegraph 8259
kMandarin qiáng
kRSUnicode 32.11
kSMSZD2003Index 139.16
kTGHZ2013 298.100:qiáng
kTotalStrokes 14
kTraditionalVariant "墻" U+58BB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"牆" U+7246 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXHC1983 0917.100:qiáng