U+5C56 "屖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
屖
U+5C56 "屖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that historically means "to delay" or "to tarry" and is also associated with an ancient ceremonial staff or a type of spear, reflecting its component breakdown of "corpse" or "body" (尸) atop "spice" or "pungent" (辛). In classical texts, it appears primarily as a variant or archaic form, often conveying the sense of slowing down or pausing, and it is classified under the Kangxi radical 44 (尸) with an additional 7 strokes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5C56 |
| 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 | 屖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 屖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB1 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5C56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005C56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5c56 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D16A |
| kCCCII | 222273 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2E6C |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2E6C |
| kCangjie | SYTJ |
| kCantonese | sai1 |
| kCihaiT | 449.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0599.240 |
| kFanqie | 先稽 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7724.1 |
| kGB3 | 2756 |
| kGSR | 0595a |
| kHanYu | 20976.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20976.050:xī |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0599.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20976.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0302.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3B58 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D16A |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-010363 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3F00 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2E41 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2E6C |
| kJapanese | セイ サイ |
| kJapaneseKun | YASUMU KATAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI SAI |
| kKangXi | 0302.120 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010363 |
| kMorohashi | 07716 |
| kPhonetic | 1112A |
| kRSUnicode | 44.7 |
| kSBGY | 090.24 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |