U+9589 "閉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

閉

U+9589 "閉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "to close," "to shut," or "to block," and it is composed of the radical "門" (gate) surrounding the element "才" (talent or ability), symbolically representing the act of closing a gate. This character appears in multiple East Asian languages, including Japanese and Korean, where it carries similar meanings of closure or confinement, and it is commonly used in words related to shutting doors, ending activities, or being secluded. Its structure reflects a common logographic pattern in CJK scripts, where the radical provides semantic context and the inner component offers phonetic or associative cues, making it a standard example of how ideographic writing systems encode meaning through visual composition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9589
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	閉
HTML Hex Encoding	閉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x96 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9589
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009589
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9589

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	B3AC
kCCCII	215E50
kCNS1986	1-5D70
kCNS1992	1-5D70
kCangjie	ANDH
kCantonese	bai3
kCihaiT	1405.202
kCowles	3207
kDaeJaweon	1835.050
kDefinition	shut, close; obstruct, block up
kEACC	215E50
kFanqie	博計方結
kFenn	22I
kFennIndex	401.05
kFourCornerCode	7724.7
kGB1	1753
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0412a
kHangul	폐:0E
kHanYu	74283.080
kHanyuPinlu	bì(117)
kHanyuPinyin	74283.080:bì
kHKGlyph	4332
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1835.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74283.080
kIRGKangXi	1330.140
kIRG_GSource	G1-3155
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B3AC
kIRG_JSource	J0-4A44
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F2B8
kIRG_KSource	K0-784D
kIRG_TSource	T1-5D70
kIRG_VSource	V1-6A6E
kJapanese	ヘイヘツヘチとじるとざすしめるしまる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	TOJIRU SHIMERU TOZASU
kJapaneseOn	HEI HETSU
kJis0	4236
kKangXi	1330.140
kKorean	PHYEY PYEL
kLau	60
kMandarin	bì
kMatthews	5092
kMeyerWempe	2261
kMojiJoho	MJ027418
kMorohashi	41222
kNelson	4945
kPhonetic	1012
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3604+169.8.3
kRSUnicode	169.3
kSBGY	373.40 495.23
kSimplifiedVariant	"闭" U+95ED CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	743.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	bì粵bai3
kTaiwanTelegraph	7028
kTang	*bèi
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	bế
kXerox	247:323