U+5B85 "宅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+5B85 "宅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "house," "home," or "dwelling," and is commonly used in various East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its fundamental semantic concept revolves around a residence or place where one lives, and it is frequently encountered in modern compound words such as "住宅" (residence or housing) and "宅地" (residential land). In contemporary Chinese internet slang, the character has also taken on an additional cultural meaning, referring to a person who is a "homebody" or "shut-in" (derived from the Japanese term "otaku"), as in "宅男" (shut-in man) or "宅女" (shut-in woman), though this extended usage is separate from its traditional logographic function as a kanji or hanzi character.