U+4ED9 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4ED9
U+4ED9 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block 
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. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+4ED9 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type OLetter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Xian (Chinese: 仙/仚/僊; pinyin: xiān; Wade–Giles: hsien) is a Chinese word for an enlightened person, translatable in English as:
- "spiritually immortal; transcendent; super-human; celestial being" (in Daoist/Taoist philosophy and cosmology)
- "physically immortal; immortal person; immortalist; saint" (in Daoist religion and pantheon)
- "alchemist; one who seeks the elixir of life; one who practices longevity techniques" or by extension "(alchemical, dietary, qigong) methods for attaining immortality" (in Chinese alchemy)
- "wizard; magician; shaman" (in Chinese mythology)
- "genie; elf, fairy; nymph" (in popular Chinese literature, 仙境 xian jing is "fairyland", Faerie)
- "sage living high in the mountains; mountain-man; hermit; recluse" (folk etymology for the character 仙)
- "immortal (talent); accomplished person; celestial (beauty); marvelous; extraordinary" (metaphorical modifier)
Xian semantically developed from meaning spiritual "immortality; enlightenment", to physical "immortality; longevity" involving methods such as alchemy, breath meditation, and T'ai chi ch'uan, and eventually to legendary and figurative "immortality".
The xian archetype is described by Victor H. Mair.
They are immune to heat and cold, untouched by the elements, and can fly, mounting upward with a fluttering motion. They dwell apart from the chaotic world of man, subsist on air and dew, are not anxious like ordinary people, and have the smooth skin and innocent faces of children. The transcendents live an effortless existence that is best described as spontaneous. They recall the ancient Indian ascetics and holy men known as ṛṣi who possessed similar traits.1994:376
According to the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, Chinese xian (仙) can mean Sanskrit ṛṣi (rishi "inspired sage in the Vedas").
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-Escape | 仙 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ä» |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | E0 B9 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | C0 E7 |
| Pīnyīn | xian |
| IRG_GSource | G0-4F49 |
| IRG_HSource | HB1- |
| IRG_JSource | J0-4067 |
| IRG_KPSource | KP0-E2B |
| IRG_KSource | K0-6039 |
| IRG_TSource | T1-4570 |
| IRG_VSource | V1-4A7 |
| BigFive | A550 |
| CCCII | 213076 |
| CNS1986 | 1-4570 |
| CNS1992 | 1-4570 |
| EACC | 213076 |
| GB0 | 4741 |
| GB1 | 4741 |
| Jis0 | 3271 |
| KPS0 | E2B0 |
| KSC0 | 6425 |
| MainlandTelegraph | 0103 |
| TaiwanTelegraph | 0103 |
| Xerox | 246:175 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Age (age) | 1.1 |
| Unicode Name (na) | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4ED9 |
| Unicode 1 Name (na1) | — |
| Block (blk) | CJK |
| 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) |
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| Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
| Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
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| Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
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| Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
| Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
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| Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
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| Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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| Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
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| Case Folding (cf) |
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| ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
| Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
| Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
| Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
| Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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| Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
| Cased (Cased) | ✘ |
| Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
| Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
| Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
| 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) | ✘ |
| Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
| Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
| Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
| Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
| East Asian Width (ea) | Wide |
| Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
| FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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| Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
| Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
| Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
| Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
| Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
| Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
| ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
| Ideographic (Ideo) | ✔ |
| ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
| IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
| IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
| InMC (InMC) | — |
| Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
| Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
| ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
| Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
| Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
| Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
| Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
| kIICore (kIICore) | AGT |
| kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) | G0-4F49 |
| kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) | HB1- |
| kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) | J0-4067 |
| kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) | KP0-E2B |
| kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) | K0-6039 |
| kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) | T1-4570 |
| kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) | V1-4A7 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) | 0196.030 |
| kIRGDaiKanwaZiten (kIRGDaiKanwaZiten) | 00374 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) | 10114.030 |
| kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) | 0092.130 |
| kBigFive (kBigFive) | A550 |
| kCangjie (kCangjie) | OU |
| kCantonese (kCantonese) | sin1 |
| kCCCII (kCCCII) | 213076 |
| kCihaiT (kCihaiT) | 85.401 |
| kCNS1986 (kCNS1986) | 1-4570 |
| kCNS1992 (kCNS1992) | 1-4570 |
| 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 |
| kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) | 2 |
| kGSR (kGSR) | 0193f |
| kHangul (kHangul) | 선 |
| kHanYu (kHanYu) | 10114.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) | xian(18) xiān(17) |
| kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) | 10114.030:xiān,xiǎn |
| kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) | 0086 |
| kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) | SENNIN SENTO |
| kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) | SEN |
| kJis0 (kJis0) | 3271 |
| kKangXi (kKangXi) | 0092.130 |
| kKorean (kKorean) | SEN |
| kKPS0 (kKPS0) | E2B0 |
| kKSC0 (kKSC0) | 6425 |
| kLau (kLau) | 2797 |
| kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) | 0103 |
| kMandarin (kMandarin) | xiān |
| kMatthews (kMatthews) | 2707 |
| kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) | 2804 |
| 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 (KangXi) (kRSKangXi) | 9.3 |
| Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) | 9.3 |
| kSBGY (kSBGY) | 136.43 |
| Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) |
 |
| Specialized Semantic Variant (kSpecializedSemanticVariant) |
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| kTaiwanTelegraph (kTaiwanTelegraph) | 0103 |
| kTang (kTang) | *siɛn siɛn |
| Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) | 5 |
| kVietnamese (kVietnamese) | tiên |
| kXerox (kXerox) | 246:175 |
| kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) | 1243.070:xiān |
| z Variant (kZVariant) |
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| Line Break (lb) | Ideographic |
| 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) |
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| NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
| Numeric Type (nt) | None |
| Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
| 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) | ✘ |
| Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
| Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
| Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
| Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
| Sentence Break (SB) | OLetter |
| Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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| Script Extension (scx) | Han |
| Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
| STerm (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) | ✘ |