U+5BAB "宫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
宫
U+5BAB "宫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "palace" or "mansion" and is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its radical is the roof radical (宀), indicating a building or shelter, and it is found in historical terms like "故宫" (the Forbidden City) as well as in modern words for "palace" in courtly or religious contexts. The character also appears in the names of celestial constellations, such as the "Palace" asterism in traditional Chinese astronomy, and its simplified form differs slightly from the traditional variant "宮".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5BAB |
| 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 | 宫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 宫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAE 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5BAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005BAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5bab |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-2C32 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2C32 |
| kCangjie | JRR |
| kCantonese | gung1 |
| kDefinition | palace |
| kFourCornerCode | 3060 |
| kGB0 | 2512 |
| kGB1 | 2512 |
| kHanYu | 20926.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gōng(73) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20926.030:gōng |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20926.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0285.101 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-392C |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-010148 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2C32 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-525B |
| kJapanese | キュウ グウ ク みや |
| kTGH | 2013:1698 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIYA IE |
| kJapaneseOn | KYUU GUU |
| kKangXi | 0285.101 |
| kKorean | KWUNG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1362 |
| kMandarin | gōng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010148 |
| kPhonetic | 686A |
| kRSUnicode | 40.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 114.060:gōng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "宮" U+5BAE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kVietnamese | cung |
| kXHC1983 | 0386.060:gōng |