U+5840 "塀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5840 "塀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese and Korean, where it is used primarily in East Asian languages in the context of architecture and enclosures. The character represents a pì in Mandarin pinyin and ヘイ (hei) in Japanese on'yomi, and its fundamental meaning is a wall, fence, or screen, specifically a structure that divides or encloses a space. In Japanese, it is notably used in compound words such as 塀 (hei, meaning a fence or wall) and appears in terms like 板塀 (ita-bei, a wooden fence) or 塀越し (hei-goshi, over a fence). This character is composed of the radical 土 (tǔ, meaning "earth" or "ground") on the left, with the right side serving as a phonetic component, and it is classified as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph within Unicode’s block for common East Asian characters.