U+5BCA "寊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
寊
U+5BCA "寊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character found in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, though its precise meaning and usage remain largely undefined in modern standard dictionaries and common text. It is not part of the frequently used characters in any of the major East Asian languages, and its inclusion in Unicode serves primarily to maintain a comprehensive historical and semantic inventory of all known ideographs that appear in classical or specialized texts. As such, "寊" represents a digital placeholder for a character that may have been used in archaic or regional contexts, but currently lacks a widely recognized pronunciation or contemporary application.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5BCA |
| 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 | 寊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 寊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAF 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5BCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005BCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5bca |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D8D5 |
| kCCCII | 217E67 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3B39 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3B39 |
| kCangjie | JYBC |
| kCantonese | zing1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0571.160 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3080.6 |
| kGB5 | 2989 |
| kHanYu | 20942.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20942.090:zhēn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0571.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20942.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0288.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-3D79 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D8D5 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-010190 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2D74 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3B39 |
| kJapanese | テイ チョウ |
| kJapaneseOn | TEI CHAWA |
| kKangXi | 0288.210 |
| kMandarin | zhēn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010190 |
| kMorohashi | 07224 |
| kPhonetic | 198* |
| kRSUnicode | 40.9 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |