U+5EE8 "廨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5EE8 "廨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in classical and modern East Asian languages, primarily in Japanese and Chinese. It generally refers to a government office or official residence, often specifically denoting a subprefecture or district office in historical contexts. In Japanese, it is commonly read as "yaku" or "yakusho" and appears in terms like "kansha" or "shayaku," while in Chinese it is pronounced "xiè" and appears in classical texts to describe administrative buildings. The character belongs to the Kangxi radical 廴 (long stride) and consists of 16 strokes, with its structure combining elements suggesting a building or shelter associated with official duties.

General Properties

Code Point U+5EE8
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 廨
HTML Hex Encoding 廨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xBB 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5EE8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005EE8
C/C++/Java Escape \u5ee8

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 E972
kCCCII 222871
kCNS1986 2-567C
kCNS1992 2-567C
kCangjie INBQ
kCantonese haai6
kCihaiT 495.301
kDaeJaweon 0664.180
kDefinition government office, public office
kEACC 222871
kFanqie 古隘
kFourCornerCode 0025.2
kGB0 6661
kGB1 6661
kHangul 해:1N
kHanYu 20905.130
kHanyuPinyin 20905.130:xiè
kIICore CT
kIRGDaeJaweon 0664.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 20905.130
kIRGKangXi 0351.170
kIRG_GSource G0-625D
kIRG_HSource HB2-E972
kIRG_JSource J0-5728
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4170
kIRG_KSource K1-7333
kIRG_TSource T2-567C
kJapanese カイ ケ ゲ
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:6152
kJapaneseKun YAKUSHO
kJapaneseOn KAI KE
kJis0 5508
kKangXi 0351.170
kKarlgren 366
kKorean HAY
kMainlandTelegraph 1685
kMandarin xiè
kMeyerWempe 953d
kMojiJoho MJ011087
kMorohashi 09510
kPhonetic 538
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4755+53.3.13
kRSUnicode 53.13
kSBGY 383.35
kSMSZD2003Index 204.01
kSMSZD2003Readings xiè,jiè粵gaai3,haai6
kTaiwanTelegraph 1685
kTGHZ2013 406.170:xiè
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 GHJMT
kXerox 270:352
kXHC1983 1278.020:xiè