U+5E98 "庘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5E98 "庘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that traditionally falls under the radical for "shelter" or "broad" (广), which is typically associated with buildings or covered structures. Its exact meaning and usage are obscure, though some ancient dictionaries suggest it may relate to a type of storehouse or a narrow passage. In modern Chinese and Japanese, this character is not commonly found in everyday text, making it a specialized entry primarily of interest to linguists, historians, or those studying classical literature and archaic scripts within the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5E98
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	庘
HTML Hex Encoding	庘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xBA 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5E98
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005E98
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5e98

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

kCCCII	22282A
kCNS1986	E-2865
kCNS1992	3-2865
kCangjie	IWL
kCantonese	aap3
kDaeJaweon	0654.060
kFanqie	烏甲
kGB3	2634
kHanYu	20877.040
kHanyuPinyin	20877.040:yā
kIRGDaeJaweon	0654.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20877.040
kIRGKangXi	0344.180
kIRG_GSource	G3-3A42
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-010983
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4114
kIRG_KSource	K2-3054
kIRG_TSource	T3-2865
kJapanese	オウ
kKangXi	0344.180
kMandarin	yā
kMojiJoho	MJ010983
kMorohashi	09274
kPhonetic	551*
kRSUnicode	53.4
kSBGY	544.39
kTotalStrokes	8