U+5DDF "巟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5DDF "巟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that originally appears in classical texts, where it denotes a state of flooding or vast waters, as well as a sense of emptiness or desolation. Its structure combines the radical for "stream" or "river" with phonetic components, though it is now largely obsolete in modern standard Mandarin and is primarily encountered in historical or literary contexts. The character has also been used as a variant form in some archaic inscriptions, and its meaning often carries a connotation of wildness or untamed natural force, reflecting its early association with catastrophic floods in Chinese mythology.

General Properties

Code Point U+5DDF
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 巟
HTML Hex Encoding 巟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB7 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5DDF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005DDF
C/C++/Java Escape \u5ddf

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

kBigFive C9DA
kCCCII 222653
kCNS1986 2-223A
kCNS1992 2-223A
kCangjie YVHLU
kCantonese fong1
kCihaiT 462.501
kDaeJaweon 0624.110
kDefinition a watery waste; to reach
kFanqie 呼光
kFourCornerCode 0021.1
kGB5 1944
kGSR 0742v
kHanYu 10283.040
kHanyuPinyin 10283.040:huāng
kIRGDaeJaweon 0624.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10283.040
kIRGKangXi 0324.060
kIRG_GSource G5-334C
kIRG_HSource HB2-C9DA
kIRG_JSource JMJ-034907
kIRG_KSource K2-2F74
kIRG_TSource T2-223A
kJapanese コウ
kJapaneseOn KOU
kKangXi 0324.060
kKarlgren 103
kMandarin huāng
kMatthews 2270
kMojiJoho MJ034907 MJ034906:E0100 MJ034907:E0101
kMorohashi 49065:E0100
kPhonetic 374 922
kRSUnicode 47.3
kSBGY 181.11
kTotalStrokes 6
kUnihanCore2020 HMT