This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as generation; world; era. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is shì.
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+4E16 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Shi or SHI may refer to:
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
19990
UTF-8
E4 B8 96
UTF-16
4E 16
UTF-32
00 00 4E 16
URL-Quoted
%E4%B8%96
HTML hex reference
世
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
世
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A5 40
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A5 40
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
90 A2
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
E1 A6
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A5 40
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
C0 A4
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
C0 A4
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
C0 A4
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
E1 A6
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
CA C0
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
CA C0
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
CA C0
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 4A 40 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 40 24 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 40 24 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 40 24 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 40 24 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 40 24 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 40 24 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 61 26 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
EB A6
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
90 A2
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
90 A2
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
90 A2
Pīnyīn
shì
RFC 5137
\u'4E16'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u4E16
C and C++
\u4E16
C#
\u4E16
CSS
\004E16
Excel
=UNICHAR(19990)
Go
\u4E16
JavaScript
\u4E16
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{4e16}
JSON
\u4E16
Java
\u4E16
Lua
\u{4E16}
Matlab
char(19990)
Perl
"\x{4E16}"
PHP
\u{4e16}
PostgreSQL
U&'\4E16'
PowerShell
`u{4E16}
Python
\u4E16
Ruby
\u{4e16}
Rust
\u{4e16}
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