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Glyph for U+4ED9
Source: Noto CJK

U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​4ED9

U+4ED9 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 Taoist super-being, transcendent, immortal. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xian.

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+4ED9 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A xian (Chinese: 仙/僊; pinyin: xiān; Wade–Giles: hsien) is any manner of immortal, mythical being within the Taoist pantheon or Chinese folklore. Xian has often been translated into English as "immortal".

Traditionally, xian refers to mortal beings who have attained immortality and supernatural abilities, with a connection to the heavenly realms inaccessible to mortals. This is often achieved through spiritual self-cultivation, alchemy, or worship by others. This is different from the gods in Chinese mythology and Taoism.

Xian is also used as a descriptor to refer to often benevolent figures of great historical, spiritual and cultural significance. The Quanzhen School of Daoism had a variety of definitions about what xian means during its history, including a metaphorical meaning where the term simply means a good, principled person.

Xian have been venerated from ancient times to the modern day in a variety of ways across different cultures and religious sects in China.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 20185
UTF-8 E4 BB 99
UTF-16 4E D9
UTF-32 00 00 4E D9
URL-Quoted %E4%BB%99
HTML hex reference 仙
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ä»™
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E0 B9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) C0 E7
Pīnyīn xian

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4ED9
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+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
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+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
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+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
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+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
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+4ED9 CJK Unified Ideograph-4ED9
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A550
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 213076
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4570
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4570
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) OU
kCantonese (kCantonese) sin1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 85.401
kCowles (kCowles) 3640
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0196.030
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) Taoist super-being, transcendent, immortal
kEACC (kEACC) 213076
kFenn (kFenn) 655E
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 177.04
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 2227.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 4
kGB0 (kGB0) 4741
kGB1 (kGB1) 4741
kGSR (kGSR) 0193f
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 2
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0086
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10114.030
kHangul (kHangul) 선:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) xian(18) xiān(17)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10114.030:xiān,xiǎn
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0196.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10114.030
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0092.130
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4F49
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A550
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-4067
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E2B0
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-6039
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4570
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-4A71
kJapanese (kJapanese) セン セント
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) SENNIN SENTO
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SEN
kJis0 (kJis0) 3271
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0092.130
kKorean (kKorean) SEN
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 2797
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 0103
kMandarin (kMandarin) xiān
kMatthews (kMatthews) 2707
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 2804
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ006521
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 00374
kNelson (kNelson) 0359
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1103
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+2699+9.2.3 C+2699+46.3.2
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 9.3
kSBGY (kSBGY) 136.43
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 19.02
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) xiān粵sin1
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+50CA U+50CA
Specialized Semantic Variant (kSpecializedSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+50CA U+50CA
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:272
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 397.030:xiān
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 0103
kTang (kTang) *siɛn siɛn
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 5
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) tiên
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1243.070:xiān
Xerox Code (kXerox) 246:175