U+5E9D "庝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5E9D "庝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that appears in classical texts and historical dictionaries, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin. Its structure combines the radical "广" (meaning a shelter or building) with "冬" (meaning winter or end), suggesting a semantic connection to a structure associated with cold or a place of confinement. In ancient sources, "庝" is often defined as a term for a type of prison or a building used for detention, particularly during the winter months, reflecting its etymological roots in physical enclosure and seasonal harshness. The character is classified under the Kangxi radical 53 (广) and is listed in older lexicons such as the "Shuowen Jiezi," though it remains obscure outside specialized historical or linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point U+5E9D
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 庝
HTML Hex Encoding 庝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xBA 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5E9D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005E9D
C/C++/Java Escape \u5e9d

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 242A31
kCNS1986 E-2868
kCNS1992 3-2868
kCangjie IHEY
kCantonese tung4
kDaeJaweon 0654.160
kGB3 2638
kHanYu 20879.030
kHanyuPinyin 20879.030:tóng
kIRGDaeJaweon 0654.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 20879.030
kIRGKangXi 0345.040
kIRG_GSource G3-3A46
kIRG_JSource JMJ-010988
kIRG_TSource T3-2868
kJapanese トウ ズ
kKangXi 0345.040
kMandarin tóng
kMojiJoho MJ010988
kMorohashi 09285
kRSUnicode 53.5
kTotalStrokes 8