U+789B "碛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+789B "碛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "desert" or "sandy land," often referring to a rocky or gravelly desert in classical and modern Chinese usage. It is composed of the radical "石" (stone) on the left, indicating a connection to rock or earth, and the phonetic component "责" (zé) on the right, which hints at its pronunciation as "qì." This character appears in historical texts and place names, such as "碛口" (Qikou), a historic town along the Yellow River in Shanxi, China, and is used in phrases like "沙碛" to describe arid, gravelly terrain.

General Properties

Code Point	U+789B
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	碛
HTML Hex Encoding	碛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA2 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x789B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000789B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u789b

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	28656A
kCangjie	MRQMO
kCantonese	zik1
kDefinition	sand and gravel
kEACC	28656A
kFourCornerCode	1568
kGB0	7751
kHanYu	42435.130
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42435.130
kIRGKangXi	0832.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-6D53
kTGH	2013:5417
kKangXi	0832.211
kMainlandTelegraph	4332
kMandarin	qì
kPhonetic	16*
kRSUnicode	112.8
kSMSZD2003Index	473.05
kTGHZ2013	294.060:qì
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"磧" U+78E7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0902.090:qì