U+58E5 "壥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+58E5 "壥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that primarily refers to a "marketplace" or "bazaar," often specifically denoting a grain market or a place where goods are exchanged in traditional contexts. It is a variant form of the more common character 廛 (chán), which historically described a merchant's shop or a residential area for traders, and its structure combines the "earth" radical (土) with components suggesting a building or enclosure. In classical texts and historical records, it appears in discussions of urban planning and commerce, but it is largely archaic today and not used in modern standard Chinese, making it of interest mainly to linguists and scholars of ancient scripts or calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point U+58E5
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 壥
HTML Hex Encoding 壥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA3 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x58E5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000058E5
C/C++/Java Escape \u58e5

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

kCangjie XGMWG
kCantonese cin4
kEACC 69545F
kFourCornerCode 4111.4
kHanYu 10501.041
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10501.041
kIRGKangXi 0242.191
kIRG_GSource GE-3539
kIRG_JSource J0-545F
kJapanese テン みせ やしき
kJapaneseOn TEN
kJis0 5263
kKangXi 0242.191
kMandarin chán
kMojiJoho MJ009377 MJ009377:E0101 MJ009378:E0102
kPhonetic 195*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4528+32.3.17
kRSUnicode 32.17
kTotalStrokes 20
kUnihanCore2020 J