U+885B "衛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

衛

U+885B "衛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to guard," "to protect," or "to defend," and it is also used in modern contexts to denote "hygiene" or "sanitation" as in the word 衛生 (wèishēng). This character originates from ancient oracle bone script, where its composition symbolically represents a group of people or soldiers walking around a central area to indicate the act of patrolling or safeguarding. In Japanese, it is used in the same sense, notably in terms like 衛星 (eisei) meaning "satellite" and 自衛隊 (jieitai) for "Self-Defense Forces," while in Korean it appears in words like 위생 (wisaeng) for "hygiene." As a component in other hanzi, it often contributes the semantic idea of protection or encircling, making it a significant element in East Asian written languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+885B
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	衛
HTML Hex Encoding	衛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA1 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x885B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000885B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u885b

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

kBigFive	BDC3
kCCCII	215749
kCNS1986	1-6E6C
kCNS1992	1-6E6C
kCangjie	HODQN
kCantonese	wai6
kCihaiT	1207.202
kCowles	5015
kDaeJaweon	1574.110
kDefinition	guard, protect, defend
kEACC	215749
kFenn	764B
kFennIndex	600.03
kFourCornerCode	2122.7
kGB1	4632
kGSR	0342a
kHangul	위:0E
kHanYu	20845.040
kHanyuPinlu	wèi(340)
kHKGlyph	3675
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1574.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20845.040
kIRGKangXi	1109.290
kIRG_GSource	G1-4E40
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BDC3
kIRG_JSource	J0-3152
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FDD4
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A5B
kIRG_TSource	T1-6E6C
kIRG_VSource	V1-6644
kJapanese	エイエエツまもりまもる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	MAMORU MAMORI
kJapaneseOn	EI E
kJis0	1750
kKangXi	1109.290
kKorean	WI
kLau	3214
kMandarin	wèi
kMatthews	7089
kMeyerWempe	3742
kMojiJoho	MJ023879 MJ023879:E0102 MJ023878:E0103 MJ058685:E0104 MJ023880:E0105
kMorohashi	34073:E0103
kNelson	1596
kPhonetic	1433
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1268+144.6.10 C+1268+178.10.6 V+13414+144.6.10 V+13414+178.10.6
kRSUnicode	144.9
kSemanticVariant	U+885E<kLau,kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"卫" U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	626.04
kTang	*hiuɛ̀i
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	vệ
kXerox	244:077
kXHC1983	1201.081:wèi