U+531C "匜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+531C "匜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an ancient Chinese character pronounced as yí in Mandarin, and it refers to a type of bronze or earthenware vessel used in ceremonial rituals during the Zhou dynasty, primarily for holding water in hand-washing or libation rites. Its shape typically resembles a shallow basin with a spout and a handle, and it is one of several vessel forms cataloged in traditional Chinese bronze inscriptions and later lexicons. In modern usage, the character is rare in everyday language but appears in historical texts, artifact descriptions, and philological studies related to early Chinese material culture.
General Properties
Code Point
U+531C
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
匜
HTML Hex Encoding
匜
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x8C 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x531C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000531C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u531c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
C96C
kCCCII
216D24
kCNS1986
2-214D
kCNS1992
2-214D
kCangjie
SPD
kCantonese
ji4
kCihaiT
205.603
kDaeJaweon
0345.040
kDefinition
basin; container for wine
kEACC
216D24
kFanqie
弋支 移爾
kFourCornerCode
7171.1
kGB3
1639
kGB8
9008
kGSR
0004n
kHanYu
10082.060
kHanyuPinyin
10082.060:yí
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10082.060
kIRG_GSource
G3-3047
kIRG_HSource
HB2-C96C
kIRG_JSource
J13-2E6D
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-387F
kIRG_KSource
K2-2555
kIRG_TSource
T2-214D
kJapanese
イ タ ダ
kTGH
2013:3536
kJIS0213
1,14,77
kJapaneseKun
HISAGE HANZOU
kJapaneseOn
I TA DA
kJis1
2006
kKangXi
0153.140
kKorean
I
kMainlandTelegraph
0558
kMandarin
yí
kMatthews
2942
kMeyerWempe
854j
kMojiJoho
MJ007786
kMorohashi
02598
kPhonetic
1471
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+16800+22.2.3
kRSUnicode
22.3
kSBGY
041.38 244.25
kSMSZD2003Index
72.12
kSMSZD2003Readings
yí粵jyu4
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+9248<sHanyuDaCidian1986:T
kTaiwanTelegraph
0558
kTGHZ2013
431.140:yí
kTotalStrokes
5
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kXerox
302:102
kXHC1983
1363.120:yí