U+753C "甼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+753C "甼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and often obsolete Chinese character, sometimes used as an alternative form of the character 町, which historically refers to a unit of land measurement or a path between fields, particularly in East Asian contexts. This character is composed of the radical 田 (meaning "field") and the component 丁 (often representing a nail or a small, square shape), suggesting its agricultural or geographical connotations. In modern usage, 甼 is primarily encountered in specialized historical texts, classical literature, or place names, though it is not commonly found in contemporary standard Chinese or Japanese writing systems due to its infrequent application. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode ensures that digital preservation and scholarly research can accurately represent this nuanced glyph.

General Properties

Code Point U+753C
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 甼
HTML Hex Encoding 甼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x94 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x753C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000753C
C/C++/Java Escape \u753c

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

kCangjie XWMN
kCantonese ting5
kDefinition raised path between fields
kEACC 696136
kFourCornerCode 6020.1
kHanYu 42528.051
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42528.051
kIRGKangXi 0759.081
kIRG_GSource GE-4274
kIRG_JSource J0-6136
kJapanese チョウ まち
kJapaneseKun MACHI
kJapaneseOn CHOU TEI
kJis0 6522
kKangXi 0759.081
kKorean CENG
kMandarin tǐng
kMojiJoho MJ017649
kMorohashi H347
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5709+102.5.2
kRSUnicode 102.2
kTotalStrokes 7
kUnihanCore2020 J