U+95D5 "闕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
闕
U+95D5 "闕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that historically refers to a type of watchtower or gate tower erected at the sides of a palace or city gate, often serving a ceremonial or defensive purpose in ancient East Asian architecture. It can also denote a fault, omission, or an imperial court, and by extension, carries the meaning of "to lack" or "to be deficient." In Classical Chinese texts, it is frequently used in compounds related to official positions, such as the phrase "闕下" meaning "under the palace towers" as a metonym for the imperial court or the emperor.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+95D5 |
| 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 | 闕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 闕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x97 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x95D5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000095D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u95d5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2F6 |
| kCCCII | 234960 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7761 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7761 |
| kCangjie | ANTUO |
| kCantonese | kyut3 |
| kCihaiT | 1411.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1844.270 |
| kDefinition | watch tower; palace |
| kEACC | 234960 |
| kFanqie | 去月 |
| kFenn | 662I |
| kFennIndex | 122.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7748.2 |
| kGB1 | 6758 |
| kGSR | 0301h |
| kHangul | 궐:0N |
| kHanYu | 74314.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74314.030:què,quē,jué |
| kIICore | ATJKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1844.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74314.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1340.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-635A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2F6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6F6D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D4C4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F74 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7761 |
| kJapanese | ケツ カチ かける |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KETSU |
| kJis0 | 7977 |
| kKangXi | 1340.060 |
| kKarlgren | 503 |
| kKorean | KWEL |
| kMandarin | què |
| kMatthews | 1712 |
| kMeyerWempe | 814a 1301c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027508 |
| kMorohashi | 41456 |
| kNelson | 4972 |
| kPhonetic | 669 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7080+169.8.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 169.10 |
| kSBGY | 478.52 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "阙" U+9619 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 747.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | què粵kyut3 quē粵kyut3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7067 |
| kTang | *kiuæt |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 270:341 |