U+68E5 "棥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+68E5 "棥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in classical and modern written Chinese, which generally represents the concept of a "railing" or "fence," often depicted as a wooden barrier or enclosure. Its structure combines the radical for "wood" (木) with a phonetic or semantic component, though its usage in contemporary texts is relatively rare and more commonly found in historical or literary contexts. In the Unicode standard, it is categorized under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, a comprehensive set that standardizes East Asian characters for digital encoding and cross-platform compatibility.

General Properties

Code Point U+68E5
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 棥
HTML Hex Encoding 棥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA3 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x68E5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000068E5
C/C++/Java Escape \u68e5

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 24407E
kCNS1986 E-3C32
kCNS1992 3-3C32
kCangjie DKKD
kCantonese faan4
kDaeJaweon 0921.180
kDefinition a railing; a fence an enclosed place
kFanqie 附袁
kGSR 0263a
kHanYu 21235.050
kHanyuPinyin 21235.050:fán
kIRGDaeJaweon 0921.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21235.050
kIRGKangXi 0533.200
kIRG_GSource GE-3D30
kIRG_JSource J14-2F23
kIRG_KSource K2-3B3C
kIRG_TSource T3-3C32
kJapanese ハン ボン
kJIS0213 2,15,03
kJapaneseKun MAGAKI
kJapaneseOn HAN BON
kJis1 3608
kKangXi 0533.200
kKarlgren 21
kMandarin fán
kMatthews 1775
kMojiJoho MJ014071
kMorohashi 14959
kPhonetic 341 776
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+17821+75.4.8
kRSUnicode 75.8
kSBGY 114.35
kSemanticVariant U+6A0A<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes 12