U+5CB8 "岸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
岸
U+5CB8 "岸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "shore" or "coast," referring to the edge of a body of water such as a river, lake, or sea. It is composed of the radical "山" (mountain) atop the phonetic component "干" (stem or dry), symbolizing a high or dry landform bordering water. In Japanese and Korean, it can also carry meanings such as "bank" or "steep cliff," and appears in common compound words like "海岸" (kaigan) for "coast" and "河岸" (kagan) for "riverbank." This glyph is unified across various East Asian writing systems under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) standard, ensuring consistent representation in global digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5CB8 |
| 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 | 岸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 岸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5CB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005CB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5cb8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A9A4 |
| kCCCII | 213B6C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4D26 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4D26 |
| kCangjie | UMMJ |
| kCantonese | ngon6 |
| kCihaiT | 456.303 |
| kCowles | 3078 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0610.070 |
| kDefinition | bank, shore; beach, coast |
| kEACC | 213B6C |
| kFanqie | 五旰 |
| kFenn | 32C |
| kFennIndex | 4.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2224.1 |
| kGB0 | 1622 |
| kGB1 | 1622 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0139e' |
| kHangul | 안:0E |
| kHanYu | 10766.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | àn(343) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10766.040:àn |
| kHKGlyph | 1094 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0610.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10766.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0310.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3036 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A9A4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-345F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7BF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-644D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4D26 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5344 |
| kJapanese | ガン きし |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1105 |
| kJapaneseKun | KISHI |
| kJapaneseOn | GAN |
| kJis0 | 2063 |
| kKangXi | 0310.030 |
| kKarlgren | 296 |
| kKorean | AN |
| kLau | 2368 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1489 |
| kMandarin | àn |
| kMatthews | 40 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2072 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010459 |
| kMorohashi | 08009 |
| kNelson | 1413 |
| kPhonetic | 653 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1563+46.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 46.5 |
| kSBGY | 401.35 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 182.23 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | àn粵ngon6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1489 |
| kTang | *ngɑ̀n |
| kTGHZ2013 | 004.030:àn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | ngàn |
| kXerox | 245:241 |
| kXHC1983 | 0010.020:àn |