U+658E "斎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

斎

U+658E "斎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "purification," "abstinence," or "a place for meditation or study," and it is commonly used in East Asian contexts, particularly in Japanese where it often forms part of terms like "斎場" (sai ba, a funeral hall) or refers to a period of ritual cleansing. This character is a variant of the more common 齋 (U+9F4B), and its usage spans across classical and modern texts, appearing in religious, cultural, and architectural terminology to denote a state of spiritual or physical purity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+658E
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	斎
HTML Hex Encoding	斎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x96 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x658E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000658E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u658e

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	27627E
kCNS1986	E-3639
kCNS1992	3-3639
kCangjie	YKLML
kCantonese	zaai1
kDaeJaweon	0835.080
kDefinition	vegetarian diet; study
kEACC	27627E
kFourCornerCode	0022.4
kHanYu	32170.111 80044.200
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0835.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32170.111
kIRGKangXi	0477.091
kIRG_GSource	GE-3B47
kIRG_JSource	J0-3A58
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4876
kIRG_KSource	K2-3827
kIRG_TSource	T3-3639
kIRG_VSource	V1-5831
kJapanese	サイシときいつきいつくいわいいわう
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	MONOIMI TSUTSUSHIMU TOKI
kJapaneseOn	SAI
kJis0	2656
kKangXi	0477.091
kMandarin	zhāi
kMojiJoho	MJ013050 MJ013049:E0102 MJ013050:E0103
kMorohashi	13467 13467:E0103
kNelson	5425
kPhonetic	56
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2120+67.4.7 C+2120+210.8.3 V+20134+67.4.7 V+20134+210.8.3
kRSUnicode	67.7
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	J
kVietnamese	trai