U+5BA9 "宩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5BA9 "宩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that appears in the traditional CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph set, primarily used in classical or historical texts. It is composed of the radical "宀" (roof) and the phonetic component "弖," and its exact meaning is obscure, often considered a variant or archaic form of other characters. In modern usage, this character is largely unused in daily writing but may be encountered in specialized linguistic studies or digital archives of ancient scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5BA9
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	宩
HTML Hex Encoding	宩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAE 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5BA9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005BA9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5ba9

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	237C73
kCangjie	JFD
kCantonese	si2
kHanYu	20929.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20929.010
kIRGKangXi	0285.101
kIRG_GSource	GE-365E
kIRG_JSource	J1-3A52
kIRG_TSource	TF-2A39
kJapanese	シ
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis1	2650
kKangXi	0285.101
kMandarin	shǐ
kMojiJoho	MJ010146
kMorohashi	07147
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21436+40.3.6 C+21436+119.6.3
kRSUnicode	40.6
kTotalStrokes	9