U+58F3 "壳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+58F3 "壳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "shell," "husk," "case," or "casing," and is used in both simplified and traditional Chinese scripts, though its traditional counterpart is often written as "殼" or "殻." This ideograph represents an image of a hard, protective outer covering, conceptually deriving from a pictographic depiction of a shell or bony structure, and it appears in common words such as "贝壳" (bèiké, meaning shell) and "地壳" (dìqiào, meaning earth's crust). In Japanese, it is used as the kanji for "kara" (shell) and appears in terms like "甲殻" (kōkaku, meaning carapace). The character is encoded as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, combining radical components (like 士 meaning scholar or earth, 冖 representing a cover, and 几 meaning table) to form its meaning of a hard exterior that encloses or protects something within.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+58F3 |
| 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 | 壳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 壳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA3 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x58F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000058F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u58f3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27463C |
| kCNS1986 | E-282D |
| kCNS1992 | 3-282D |
| kCangjie | GBHN |
| kCantonese | hok3 |
| kCihaiT | 333.601 |
| kCowles | 1137 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0483.100 |
| kDefinition | casing, shell, husk |
| kEACC | 27463C |
| kFennIndex | 122.07 253.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4021 |
| kGB0 | 3139 |
| kHanYu | 10428.020 10435.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ké(67) qiào(30) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0483.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10428.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0243.041 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F47 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-96F2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-2536 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3C79 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2B3E |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-282D |
| kJapanese | カク |
| kTGH | 2013:650 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,05,22 |
| kJapaneseKun | KARA |
| kJapaneseOn | KAKU |
| kJis1 | 2462 |
| kKangXi | 0243.041 |
| kKarlgren | 506 |
| kLau | 1213 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8199 |
| kMandarin | ké |
| kMatthews | 3406 |
| kMeyerWempe | 766 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009391 MJ009391:E0101 MJ009390:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 05648 05648:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 493 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17466+33.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 33.4 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+3C7F<kMatthews U+6BBB<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "壳" U+58F3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 143.06 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+6BBC<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9745 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 195.160:ké 300.140:qiào |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "壳" U+58F3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "殻" U+6BBB CJK Unified Ideograph-# "殼" U+6BBC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXerox | 323:257 |
| kXHC1983 | 0639.050:ké 0922.040:qiào |