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Glyph for U+558E
Source: Noto CJK

U+558E CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​558E

U+558E was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs 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 a wry mouth; (Cant.) a final particle expressing contradiction, quotation, etc.. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is wāi.

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+558E offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 21902
UTF-8 E5 96 8E
UTF-16 55 8E
UTF-32 00 00 55 8E
URL-Quoted %E5%96%8E
HTML hex reference 喎
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake å–Ž
Pīnyīn wāi

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-558E
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) D87B
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 217145
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 2-3A5F
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 2-3A5F
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) RBBR
kCantonese (kCantonese) waa1
kCheungBauer (kCheungBauer) 030/09;RBBR;wo3,wo4,wo5,wo6
kCheungBauerIndex (kCheungBauerIndex) 369.06 369.07 369.08 369.09
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0419.170
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) a wry mouth; (Cant.) a final particle expressing contradiction, quotation, etc.
kEACC (kEACC) 217145
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 6702.7
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10641.110
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10641.110:wāi
kIICore (kIICore) BHM
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0419.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10641.110
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0198.090
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) GE-3363
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB2-D87B
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J13-2F2B
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP1-3A51
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K2-2774
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T2-3A5F
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-4F5A
kJIS0213 (kJIS0213) 1,15,11
kJapanese (kJapanese) カ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) YUGAMU
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) KA
kJis1 (kJis1) 2174
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0198.090
kLau (kLau) 3246 3247 3248
kMandarin (kMandarin) wāi
kMatthews (kMatthews) 3544
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ008444
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 03925
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 700
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+14395+30.3.9
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 30.9
kSBGY (kSBGY) 093.25
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 110.07
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) wāi粵waa1
Simplified Variant (kSimplifiedVariant) Glyph for U+359E U+359E
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 11
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HMT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) oa
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1177.081:wāi