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Glyph for U+59DC
Source: Noto CJK

U+59DC CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​59DC

U+59DC 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 surname; ginger. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is jiāng.

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+59DC offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Jiang (Chinese: , also romanized Gang, Geung, Gung, Chiang, Kang, Keung, Keong, Kiang) is one of the oldest Chinese surnames, being one of the original xing (姓) surnames. It was one of the "Eight Great Xings of High Antiquity" (上古八大姓), along with Jī (姬), Yáo (姚), Yíng (嬴), Sì (姒), Yún (妘), Guī (媯) and Rèn (妊), though some sources quote Jí (姞) as the last one instead of Rèn. Of these xing, only Jiang and Yao have survived in their original form to modern days as frequently occurring surnames. It is the 32nd surname listed in the Song dynasty-era Hundred Family Surnames poem. It is the 60th most common surname in China (2007), roughly 0.34% of the Han Chinese population. The Lu clan of Fanyang stem from this surname before taking on the Lu (盧) surname. Derivative surnames of Jiang include Zhang,Lü,Qiu, Shen., These originated:

  • In the Qi (state), Jiang Ziya's descendants had the surname Jiang (姜)
  • In the Qi (state), those with the surname Huan (桓) changed it to Jiang (姜)
  • Chinese minority members of the population such as the Dong people, Tujia people, Yao people took the surname Jiang (姜)
  • During the Yuan dynasty, Mongols were given the surname Jiang (姜)
  • During the Qing dynasty, Russians, or the Eluosizu people, were given the surname Jiang (姜)

Additionally, it is the most common Hanja that represents the Korean surname Kang.

Representations

System Representation
23004
UTF-8 E5 A7 9C
UTF-16 59 DC
UTF-32 00 00 59 DC
URL-Quoted %E5%A7%9C
HTML hex reference 姜
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 姜
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) CB A9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) D5 AA
Pīnyīn jiāng

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59DC
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+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
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+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
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+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
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+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
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+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) ABB8
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 213968
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-505A
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-505A
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) TGV
kCantonese (kCantonese) goeng1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 383.501
kCowles (kCowles) 1644
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0525.210
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) surname; ginger
kEACC (kEACC) 275624
kFenn (kFenn) 151H
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 45.03
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 8040.4
kFrequency (kFrequency) 5
kGB0 (kGB0) 2910
kGB1 (kGB1) 2910
kGSR (kGSR) 0711a
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0901
kHanYu (kHanYu) 21047.110
kHangul (kHangul) 강:0N
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) jiāng(13)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 21047.110:jiāng
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0525.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 21047.110
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0259.200
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-3D2A
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-ABB8
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-552A
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-CEAA
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-4B29
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-505A
kJapanese (kJapanese) キョウ コウ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) TSUYOI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) KYOU
kJis0 (kJis0) 5310
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0259.200
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 352
kKorean (kKorean) KANG
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 1203
kMandarin (kMandarin) jiāng
kMatthews (kMatthews) 637
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 1130c
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009653
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 06205
kNelson (kNelson) 3657
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 607 609 1530
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+4569+38.3.6 C+4569+123.6.3
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 38.6
kSBGY (kSBGY) 174.11
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 155.12 538.01
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) jiāng粵goeng1
Simplified Variant (kSimplifiedVariant) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:1643
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 166.160,166.170:jiāng
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 1203
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 9
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC Glyph for U+8591 U+8591
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0560.050:jiāng
Xerox Code (kXerox) 262:275