U+5EDE "廞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

廞

U+5EDE "廞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that historically carries meanings related to "to open" or "to arrange," and in classical texts it is sometimes associated with the idea of a large, sweeping gesture or the act of laying out objects in order. It appears in ancient Chinese literature, particularly in the Erya and other early lexicographical works, where it describes an expansive or imposing manner, and it is also used in some contexts to denote a type of ancient ritual vessel or a specific architectural feature. Due to its infrequent use in modern Chinese, it is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, paleography, and classical Chinese studies, where its precise semantic range and pronunciation variants (such as xīn or qìn) are still debated among specialists.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5EDE
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	廞
HTML Hex Encoding	廞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xBB 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5EDE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005EDE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5ede

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	E574
kCCCII	222869
kCNS1986	2-503D
kCNS1992	2-503D
kCangjie	ICNO
kCantonese	jam1
kCihaiT	492.601
kDaeJaweon	0662.010
kDefinition	to prepare horses and chariots for battle
kFanqie	許金許錦
kFourCornerCode	0028.2
kGB3	2667
kGSR	0652l
kHangul	흠:1N
kHanYu	20902.100
kHanyuPinyin	20902.100:xīn,qiàn
kIRGDaeJaweon	0662.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20902.100
kIRGKangXi	0350.270
kIRG_GSource	G3-3A63
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E574
kIRG_JSource	J1-3C59
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-416A
kIRG_KSource	K1-7530
kIRG_TSource	T2-503D
kJapanese	キンギンカンコンケンゴン
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	TSURANERU OKOSU KEHASHIISAMA
kJapaneseOn	KIN KON GIN GON KAN KEN
kJis1	2857
kKangXi	0350.270
kKorean	HUM
kMandarin	xīn
kMatthews	2731
kMojiJoho	MJ011068
kMorohashi	09488
kPhonetic	1475
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21507+53.3.12
kRSUnicode	53.12
kSBGY	219.49 330.03
kSimplifiedVariant	"𫷷" U+2BDF7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HMT