U+5E8D "庍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
庍
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
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 |