U+5E8D "庍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E8D "庍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that appears in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block. Its meaning is historically obscure, though it is traditionally interpreted as a variant of a character used in place names or related to ancient administrative structures, with its radical “广” suggesting a connection to buildings or dwellings. Originating from classical Chinese texts, it is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin or Japanese, and its exact pronunciation and usage are often debated among scholars, making it a point of interest for paleographers and specialists in historical Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point U+5E8D
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 庍
HTML Hex Encoding 庍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xBA 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E8D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E8D
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e8d

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 CAD1
kCCCII 222826
kCNS1986 2-2371
kCNS1992 2-2371
kCangjie IHML
kCantonese baai3
kFanqie 方卦 香靳
kFourCornerCode 0022.1
kGB5 2894
kHanYu 20875.060
kHanyuPinyin 20875.060:bài,xìn,tīng
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 20875.060
kIRGKangXi 0343.290
kIRG_GSource G5-3C7E
kIRG_HSource HB2-CAD1
kIRG_JSource JMJ-010972
kIRG_TSource T2-2371
kJapanese ハイ ヘ
kJapaneseOn HAI HE
kKangXi 0343.290
kMandarin bài
kMojiJoho MJ010972
kMorohashi 09247
kRSUnicode 53.4
kSBGY 384.09 397.04
kTotalStrokes 7
kUnihanCore2020 HMT