U+58C1 "壁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
壁
U+58C1 "壁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the primary meaning of "wall," often used to denote a physical barrier or partition in architecture and extends metaphorically to concepts like obstruction, defense, or a cliff face. Composed of the radical for "earth" or "soil" combined with phonetic and semantic elements suggesting a vertical structure, it appears in compound words such as "壁纸" for wallpaper and "墙壁" for building walls. This character is employed across various contexts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, symbolizing not just a structural element but also ideas of separation, protection, and impasse, as seen in idioms like "絕壁" meaning a sheer cliff.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+58C1 |
| 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 | 壁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 壁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA3 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x58C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000058C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u58c1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BEC0 |
| kCCCII | 213866 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7049 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7049 |
| kCangjie | SJG |
| kCantonese | bik1 |
| kCihaiT | 331.201 |
| kCowles | 3275 3284 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0479.290 |
| kDefinition | partition wall; walls of a house; 14th lunar mansion, determinative star γ Pegasi (Algenib) |
| kEACC | 213866 |
| kFanqie | 北激 |
| kFenn | 158F |
| kFennIndex | 400.02 401.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7010.4 |
| kGB0 | 1758 |
| kGB1 | 1758 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0853l |
| kHangul | 벽:0E |
| kHanYu | 10494.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bì(149) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10494.080:bì |
| kHKGlyph | 0809 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0479.290 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10494.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0240.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-315A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BEC0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A49 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDE5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5B7A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7049 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-512E |
| kJapanese | ヘキ ヒャク かべ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:3384 |
| kJapaneseKun | KABE |
| kJapaneseOn | HEKI |
| kJis0 | 4241 |
| kKangXi | 0240.100 |
| kKorean | PYEK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1084 |
| kMandarin | bì |
| kMatthews | 5113 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2348 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009330 |
| kMorohashi | 05516 |
| kNelson | 1148 |
| kPhonetic | 1040 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3609+32.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.13 |
| kSBGY | 523.43 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 140.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bì粵bik1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1084 |
| kTang | bek |
| kTGHZ2013 | 020.060:bì |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | bích |
| kXerox | 246:316 |
| kXHC1983 | 0062.020:bì |