U+58C3 "壃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+58C3 "壃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily appears in historical or classical texts, particularly as an ancient form of the modern character 疆 (jiāng), meaning "boundary," "border," or "frontier." Its structure combines the radical 土 (earth, ground) with elements suggesting division or demarcation, reflecting its original use in describing territorial limits, especially in contexts such as ancient Chinese geography, military strategy, or administrative divisions. While now largely supplanted by the simpler and more common 疆, 壃 remains of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and paleography, as it illustrates the evolution of written Chinese through the standardization of characters over time.

General Properties

Code Point U+58C3
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 壃
HTML Hex Encoding 壃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA3 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x58C3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000058C3
C/C++/Java Escape \u58c3

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 217842
kCNS1986 E-5048
kCNS1992 3-5048
kCangjie GMWM
kCantonese goeng1
kDaeJaweon 0479.330
kFanqie 居良
kGSR 0710b
kHangul 강:1N
kHanYu 10491.020
kIRGDaeJaweon 0479.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10491.020
kIRGKangXi 0240.140
kIRG_GSource GE-352E
kIRG_JSource J4-2533
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3C4C
kIRG_KSource K1-5759
kIRG_TSource T3-5048
kJapanese キョウ さかい
kKoreanName 2015
kJIS0213 2,05,19
kKangXi 0240.140
kKorean KANG
kMandarin jiāng
kMojiJoho MJ009332
kMorohashi 05520
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+17463+32.3.13
kRSUnicode 32.13
kSBGY 174.03
kTotalStrokes 16