U+657B "敻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+657B "敻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that traditionally conveys meanings related to "far," "distant," or "vast," often used to describe something remote in space or time. It appears in classical Chinese texts, including poetry and philosophical writings, where it evokes a sense of expansive distance or separation. This character is now seldom used in modern Chinese, but it remains part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, representing a historical layer of the East Asian written tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+657B
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 敻
HTML Hex Encoding 敻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x95 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x657B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000657B
C/C++/Java Escape \u657b

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 E5C0
kCNS1986 2-5067
kCNS1992 2-5067
kCangjie NBBUE
kCantonese hing3
kDaeJaweon 0486.100
kDefinition long, faraway; pre-eminent
kFanqie 休正
kFourCornerCode 2740.7
kGSR 0167g
kHanYu 20871.151
kIRGDaeJaweon 0486.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 20871.151
kIRGKangXi 0475.101
kIRG_GSource GE-3B40
kIRG_HSource HB2-E5C0
kIRG_JSource JMJ-057614
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4850
kIRG_TSource T2-5067
kJapanese ケイ はるか
kJapaneseKun HARUKA TOOI MOTOMERU
kJapaneseOn KEI KEN
kKangXi 0475.101
kMandarin xiòng
kMojiJoho MJ057614
kMorohashi 13355
kPhonetic 513 1469*
kRSUnicode 66.11
kSBGY 406.48 431.13
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HMT