U+5BA8 "宨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
宨
U+5BA8 "宨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character that belongs to the Kangxi radical for "roof" or "house" and is associated with meanings related to slyness, cunning, or deceit. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing, often appearing only in specialized historical texts or classical dictionaries where it conveys a sense of craftiness or artful behavior. Its structure combines the "roof" radical with phonetic components, reflecting the logographic nature of the CJK script system, though it remains largely unused in contemporary language and has limited practical application today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5BA8 |
| 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 | 宨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 宨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAE 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5BA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005BA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5ba8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CE77 |
| kCCCII | 217E4C |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2978 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2978 |
| kCangjie | JLMO |
| kCantonese | tiu2 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0564.020 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3011.3 |
| kHanYu | 20927.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20927.080:tiǎo |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0564.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20927.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0285.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-365D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CE77 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3A51 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2D6E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2978 |
| kJapanese | チョウ |
| kJapaneseKun | HOSHIIMAMA |
| kJapaneseOn | TEWA |
| kJis1 | 2649 |
| kKangXi | 0285.060 |
| kMandarin | tiǎo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010145 |
| kMorohashi | 07140 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+21435+40.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 40.6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |