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Glyph for U+8521
Source: Noto CJK

U+8521 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8521

U+8521 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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; species of tortoise. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is cài.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+8521 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Cài (Chinese: 蔡) is a Chinese-language surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state. In 2019 it was the 38th most common surname in China, but the 9th most common in Taiwan (as of 2018), where it is usually romanized as "Tsai" (based on Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Mandarin), "Tsay", or "Chai" and the 8th most common in Singapore, where it is usually romanized as "Chua", which is based on its Teochew and Hokkien pronunciation. Koreans use Chinese-derived family names and in Korean, Cai is 채 in Hangul, "Chae" in Revised Romanization, It is also a common name in Hong Kong where it is romanized as "Choy", "Choi" or "Tsoi". In Macau, it is spelled as "Choi". In Malaysia, it is romanized as "Choi" from the Cantonese pronunciation, and "Chua" or "Chuah" from the Hokkien or Teochew pronunciation. It is romanized in the Philippines as "Chua" or "Chuah", and in Thailand as "Chuo" (ฉั่ว). Moreover, it is also romanized in Cambodia as either "Chhay" or "Chhor" among people of full Chinese descent living in Cambodia and as “Tjhai”, "Tjoa" or "Chua" in Indonesia.

Representations

System Representation
34081
UTF-8 E8 94 A1
UTF-16 85 21
UTF-32 00 00 85 21
URL-Quoted %E8%94%A1
HTML hex reference 蔡
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 蔡
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) F3 F9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) E8 F1
Pīnyīn cài

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8521
Unicode 1 Name
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Script Han
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Case Folding Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping BDB2
CCCII Mapping 215572
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 1-6E5B
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 1-6E5B
Cangjie Input Code TBOF
kCantonese coi3
kCihaiT 1164.502
kDaeJaweon 1517.170
Unihan Definition surname; species of tortoise
kEACC 215572
kFenn 515K
kFennIndex 541.07
kFourCornerCode 4490.1
kFrequency 4
kGB0 1844
kGB1 1844
kGSR 0337i
kHKGlyph 3531
kHanYu 53282.100
kHangul 채:0N
kHanyuPinyin 53282.100:cài,sà,cā
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1517.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53282.100
kIRGKangXi 1055.030
kIRG_GSource G0-324C
kIRG_HSource HB1-BDB2
kIRG_JSource J0-6871
kIRG_KPSource KP0-EFBF
kIRG_KSource K0-7379
kIRG_TSource T1-6E5B
kJapanese サイ サツ サチ
kJapaneseKun AKUTA OTOROERU HERASU
kJapaneseOn SAI SATSU
kJis0 7281
kKangXi 1055.030
kKorean CHAY SAL
kKoreanName 2015
kMainlandTelegraph 5591
kMandarin cài
kMatthews 6673
kMeyerWempe 3445a
kMojiJoho MJ022701 MJ022701:E0101 MJ022702:E0102 MJ060130:E0103
kMorohashi 31818:E0102
kPhonetic 54 246
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+6426+140.3.11
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 140.11
kSBGY 382.54
kSMSZD2003Index 597.03
kSMSZD2003Readings cài粵coi3
kTGH 2013:3071
kTGHZ2013 031.050:cài
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 5591
kTang *tsɑ̀i
Stroke Number 14
UnihanCore2020 Set GHJKMPT
kXHC1983 0101.040:cài
Xerox Code 254:100