This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as house; building, structure; eaves. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is yǔ.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+5B87 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Zhu (Chinese: 杼, also 予, 宁, 佇, or 宇) was the seventh king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BCE) of Ancient China. Along with the reign of his father Shao Kang, Zhu's rule was considered a peaceful and prosperous period of the Xia's history.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
23431
UTF-8
E5 AE 87
UTF-16
5B 87
UTF-32
00 00 5B 87
URL-Quoted
%E5%AE%87
HTML hex reference
宇
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
宇
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A6 74
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A6 74
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
89 46
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
E9 D4
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A6 74
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
B1 A7
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
B1 A7
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
B1 A7
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
E9 D4
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
D3 EE
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
D3 EE
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
D3 EE
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 53 6E 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 31 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 31 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 31 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 31 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 31 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 31 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 69 54 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
EF D4
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
89 46
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
89 46
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
89 46
Pīnyīn
yǔ
RFC 5137
\u'5B87'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u5B87
C and C++
\u5B87
C#
\u5B87
CSS
\005B87
Excel
=UNICHAR(23431)
Go
\u5B87
JavaScript
\u5B87
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{5b87}
JSON
\u5B87
Java
\u5B87
Lua
\u{5B87}
Matlab
char(23431)
Perl
"\x{5B87}"
PHP
\u{5b87}
PostgreSQL
U&'\5B87'
PowerShell
`u{5B87}
Python
\u5B87
Ruby
\u{5b87}
Rust
\u{5b87}
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