U+8D5C "赜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8D5C "赜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "mysterious" or "profound," often carrying connotations of depth and subtlety in classical texts. It is composed of the radical 贝 (shell, related to wealth or valuables) and a phonetic component, and its usage appears in ancient literature to describe arcane or esoteric matters, such as in the phrase "赜隐" which refers to hidden profundity. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block in Unicode, representing a shared but infrequently used ideograph in modern writing, preserved mostly for its historical and literary significance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8D5C
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	赜
HTML Hex Encoding	赜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB5 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8D5C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008D5C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8d5c

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	293726
kCangjie	SLQMO
kCantonese	zaak3
kDefinition	abstruse, deep, profound
kEACC	293726
kFourCornerCode	7578
kGB0	5651
kHanYu	63656.110
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63656.110
kIRGKangXi	1213.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-5853
kTGH	2013:5882
kKangXi	1213.211
kMainlandTelegraph	6358
kMandarin	zé
kPhonetic	16*
kRSUnicode	154'.11
kTGHZ2013	460.130:zé
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"賾" U+8CFE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1444.040:zé