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Glyph for U+4959
Source: Noto CJK

U+4959 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​4959

U+4959 was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block U+3400 to U+4DBF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as (same as 鐆) a speculum used in ancient times, to produce fire from the rays of the sun. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is suì.

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+4959 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 18777
UTF-8 E4 A5 99
UTF-16 49 59
UTF-32 00 00 49 59
URL-Quoted %E4%A5%99
HTML hex reference 䥙
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 䥙
Pīnyīn suì

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4959
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✔
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✔
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+4959 CJK Unified Ideograph-4959
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) CNLO
kCantonese (kCantonese) seoi6
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) (same as 鐆) a speculum used in ancient times, to produce fire from the rays of the sun
kHanYu (kHanYu) 64253.020
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 64253.020:suì
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 64253.020
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1323.080
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) GKX-1323.08
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP1-818A
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K3-3429
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T5-6E35
kJapanese (kJapanese) スイ
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1323.080
kMandarin (kMandarin) suì
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ005208
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 40873
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 167.12
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 20