U+58B4 "墴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+58B4 "墴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that falls under the radical for earth or soil, typically pronounced *huáng* or *wěi* in Mandarin, and it is associated with meanings related to loess or yellow earth, often referencing a type of yellow soil or dust. Historically, this character has been used in classical texts to describe sallow or arid land conditions, and it appears in some ancient dictionaries such as the Kangxi Zidian. In modern usage, it is considered a rare or archaic character, seldom appearing in everyday written Chinese, but it remains encoded in the Unicode Standard for the purpose of preserving historical and linguistic documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+58B4
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	墴
HTML Hex Encoding	墴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA2 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x58B4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000058B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u58b4

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	21782A
kCNS1986	E-4B4F
kCNS1992	3-4B4F
kCangjie	GTMC
kCantonese	wong4
kDaeJaweon	0479.050
kGB5	2263
kHanYu	10486.040
kIRGDaeJaweon	0479.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10486.040
kIRGKangXi	0239.220
kIRG_GSource	G5-365F
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-009316
kIRG_TSource	T3-4B4F
kJapanese	コウ
kKangXi	0239.220
kMandarin	huáng
kMojiJoho	MJ009316
kMorohashi	05490
kRSUnicode	32.12
kTotalStrokes	14