U+5B94 "宔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5B94 "宔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character whose primary meaning is "ancestral temple" or "spirit tablet," often associated with the concept of a shrine dedicated to ancestors or deities. In classical texts, it appears as a variant of or compound element within the broader family of characters related to worship and lineage, though it is seldom used in modern Standard Chinese. The character is composed of the radical "宀" (roof) over "主" (master or lord), visually suggesting a sheltered place for a spiritual authority, but its practical usage remains largely confined to historical or specialized linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5B94
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	宔
HTML Hex Encoding	宔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAE 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5B94
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005B94
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5b94

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	217E3E
kCNS1986	E-284C
kCNS1992	3-284C
kCangjie	JYG
kCantonese	zyu2
kDaeJaweon	0556.200
kDefinition	anciently, a stone box holding an image in an ancestral temple
kFanqie	之庾
kGB3	2725
kHanYu	20923.010
kHanyuPinyin	20923.010:zhǔ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0556.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20923.010
kIRGKangXi	0283.100
kIRG_GSource	G3-3B39
kIRG_JSource	J1-3A4F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3E56
kIRG_KSource	K2-2D6B
kIRG_TSource	T3-284C
kJapanese	シュ
kJapaneseOn	SHU
kJis1	2647
kKangXi	0283.100
kMandarin	zhǔ
kMojiJoho	MJ010126
kMorohashi	07102
kPhonetic	263*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21434+40.3.5
kRSUnicode	40.5
kSBGY	263.22
kSMSZD2003Index	167.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhǔ粵zyu2
kTotalStrokes	8