This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as food (some food as glutinous rice tamale—made by wrapping the rice in broad leaves of reeds and boiled for a few hours—usually with other ingredients, as dates, meat, oyster, beams, etc.. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is yè.
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+42A6 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
17062
UTF-8
E4 8A A6
UTF-16
42 A6
UTF-32
00 00 42 A6
URL-Quoted
%E4%8A%A6
HTML hex reference
䊦
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
䊦
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
82 32 EA 33
Pīnyīn
yè
RFC 5137
\u'42A6'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u42A6
C and C++
\u42A6
C#
\u42A6
CSS
\0042A6
Excel
=UNICHAR(17062)
Go
\u42A6
JavaScript
\u42A6
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{42a6}
JSON
\u42A6
Java
\u42A6
Lua
\u{42A6}
Matlab
char(17062)
Perl
"\x{42A6}"
PHP
\u{42a6}
PostgreSQL
U&'\42A6'
PowerShell
`u{42A6}
Python
\u42A6
Ruby
\u{42a6}
Rust
\u{42a6}
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food (some food as glutinous rice tamale—made by wrapping the rice in broad leaves of reeds and boiled for a few hours—usually with other ingredients, as dates, meat, oyster, beams, etc.