U+95B6 "閶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+95B6 "閶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character (with a simplified variant 阊) that primarily refers to the name of a mythical celestial gate or portal, often associated with the gate of heaven in classical Chinese mythology and literature, particularly found in texts like the "Shan Hai Jing" (Classic of Mountains and Seas). In a more practical and historical context, it also served as a component of the word "閶闔" (chang he), denoting the main gate of the imperial palace in ancient China, symbolizing authority and the boundary between the mortal and divine realms. The character is constructed with the "door" radical (門) on the outside, indicating its gate-related meaning, combined with the phonetic component "昌" (chang, meaning "prosperous"), and it is used primarily in classical or literary contexts today rather than in everyday modern Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+95B6
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	閶
HTML Hex Encoding	閶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x96 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x95B6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000095B6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u95b6

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	EC4B
kCCCII	23494F
kCNS1986	2-5B57
kCNS1992	2-5B57
kCangjie	ANAA
kCantonese	coeng1
kCihaiT	1410.203
kDaeJaweon	1842.190
kDefinition	gate of heaven; main gate of palace
kEACC	23494F
kFanqie	尺良
kFenn	803K
kFennIndex	17.02
kFourCornerCode	7760.6
kGB1	6749
kGSR	0724g
kHangul	창:1N
kHanYu	74304.050
kHanyuPinyin	74304.050:chāng,tāng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1842.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74304.050
kIRGKangXi	1336.170
kIRG_GSource	G1-6351
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EC4B
kIRG_JSource	J13-7D53
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-827E
kIRG_KSource	K1-6E75
kIRG_TSource	T2-5B57
kJapanese	ショウ トウ
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	1,93,51
kJapaneseOn	SHOU TOU
kJis1	7016
kKangXi	1336.170
kKorean	CHENG
kMandarin	chāng
kMatthews	212
kMeyerWempe	220d
kMojiJoho	MJ027470
kMorohashi	41367
kPhonetic	119
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17179+169.8.8
kRSUnicode	169.8
kSBGY	173.32
kSimplifiedVariant	"阊" U+960A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	746.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	chāng粵coeng1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7049
kTang	*chiɑng
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	267:241