U+5DEC "巬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5DEC "巬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely obsolete Chinese character that historically functions as a variant form of the character "岌" (jí), which means "tall and dangerous" or "precipitous," often used to describe steep mountains or perilous heights. This character is composed of the radical for "mountain" (山) combined with a phonetic component "及" (jí), and it appears in classical texts and historical dictionaries but has fallen out of common use in modern Mandarin, surviving primarily in specialized linguistic or typographic contexts. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures digital preservation for scholars studying ancient Chinese scripts and for the accurate representation of rare characters in historical documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5DEC
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	巬
HTML Hex Encoding	巬
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB7 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5DEC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005DEC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5dec

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

kCangjie	MNQO
kCantonese	gei1
kDaeJaweon	0333.031
kHanYu	10413.031
kIRGDaeJaweon	0333.031
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10413.031
kIRGKangXi	0326.011
kIRG_GSource	GK-683D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4037
kIRG_KSource	K2-2F77
kKangXi	0326.011
kKorean	PWU
kMandarin	pu
kPseudoGB1	9335
kRSUnicode	48.6
kTotalStrokes	9