U+58CA "壊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

壊

U+58CA "壊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (also used in Japanese) that primarily means "break," "destroy," "demolish," or "ruin." It is composed of the radical 土 (earth, soil) on the left side, which indicates a connection to land or structures, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation. In modern usage, this character appears in words like 壊す (kowasu, "to break" in Japanese) and 壊滅 (huǐmiè, "destruction" or "annihilation" in Chinese). Its structure reflects a semantic association with physical collapse or damage, and it has been encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, supporting digital representation for East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+58CA
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	壊
HTML Hex Encoding	壊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA3 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x58CA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000058CA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u58ca

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	2D386E
kCNS1986	E-5049
kCNS1992	3-5049
kCangjie	GJWV
kCantonese	waai6
kDaeJaweon	0480.180
kDefinition	bad, spoil(ed), ruin, destroy
kEACC	2D386E
kFourCornerCode	4413.2
kHanYu	10491.031
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0480.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10491.031
kIRGKangXi	0240.301
kIRG_GSource	GE-3532
kIRG_JSource	J0-3275
kIRG_TSource	T3-5049
kJapanese	カイエケこわすこわれるやぶる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	KOWASU YABURU KOWARERU
kJapaneseOn	KAI
kJis0	1885
kKangXi	0240.301
kMandarin	huài
kMojiJoho	MJ009341
kMorohashi	05541'
kNelson	1147
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1397+32.3.13
kRSUnicode	32.13
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	J