U+78DB "磛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
磛
U+78DB "磛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that primarily appears in classical or literary contexts, meaning "steep" or "precipitous," often describing a rugged cliff or mountainous terrain. In modern usage, it is occasionally found in historical texts, place names, or poetic descriptions of landscapes. The character’s structure combines the radical "石" (stone) with a phonetic component "斬" (zan, meaning "to cut" or "behead"), reflecting its semantic link to sharp, rocky formations. Due to its obscurity, it is not commonly used in everyday Chinese writing but remains encoded in Unicode for the preservation of historical and literary works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+78DB |
| 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 | 磛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 磛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA3 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x78DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000078DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u78db |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EAA8 |
| kCCCII | 22656E |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5872 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5872 |
| kCangjie | JLMR |
| kCantonese | caam4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1252.170 |
| kDefinition | cliff |
| kEACC | 22656E |
| kFourCornerCode | 5260.1 |
| kGB3 | 5614 |
| kHanYu | 42452.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42452.030:chán |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1252.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42452.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0835.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-582E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EAA8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-502E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-60AF |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4D3E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5872 |
| kJapanese | サン ザン セン ゼン |
| kJapaneseKun | KEWASHII |
| kJapaneseOn | SAN ZEN SEN |
| kJis1 | 4814 |
| kKangXi | 0835.080 |
| kMandarin | chán |
| kMeyerWempe | 3233c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018641 |
| kMorohashi | 24419 |
| kPhonetic | 21* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22092+112.5.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 112.11 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5D83<kMeyerWempe |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4329 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 312:341 |