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Glyph for U+4F59
Source: Noto CJK

U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​4F59

U+4F59 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 I, my, me; surname; surplus. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is yú.

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+4F59 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Yu is the pinyin romanisation of several Chinese family names. However, in the Wade–Giles romanisation system, Yu is equivalent to You in pinyin. "Yu" may represent many different Chinese characters, including 余, 于, 由, 魚 (鱼), 漁(渔), 楀, 俞(兪), 喻 (this character is 35th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem), 於, 遇, 虞, 郁, 尉, 禹, 游, 尤, 庾, 娛(娱), and 茹 (Rú).

The most common of the Yu surnames are 于, 余, and 俞. In China, 0.62% of the population have the family name 于 in 2002 (about 7.4 million), and this surname is most common in Shandong province and northeastern China. Around 0.41% of the population have the surname 余 in 2002 (over five million), and it is most common in Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. The 俞 surname represents around 0.12% of China's population.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 20313
UTF-8 E4 BD 99
UTF-16 4F 59
UTF-32 00 00 4F 59
URL-Quoted %E4%BD%99
HTML hex reference 余
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ä½™
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E5 F9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) CD BE
Pīnyīn yú

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F59
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+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
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+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
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+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
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+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
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+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A745
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 213131
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4927
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4927
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) OMD
kCantonese (kCantonese) jyu4
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 97.601
kCowles (kCowles) 4886
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0208.090
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) I, my, me; surname; surplus
kEACC (kEACC) 276076
kFenn (kFenn) 31F
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 643.03
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 8090.4
kFrequency (kFrequency) 4
kGB0 (kGB0) 5164
kGB1 (kGB1) 6637
kGSR (kGSR) 0082a
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0128
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10128.040
kHangul (kHangul) 여:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) yú(287)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10128.040:yú,tú,xú,yù
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0208.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10128.040
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0099.020
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-5360
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A745
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-4D3E
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-F8C9
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-6579
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4927
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-4B30
kJapanese (kJapanese) ヨ ヤ あまる あます あまり われ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) AMARU WARE AMARI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) YO
kJis0 (kJis0) 4530
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0099.020
kKorean (kKorean) YE
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 0151
kMandarin (kMandarin) yú
kMatthews (kMatthews) 7605
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 3633
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ006644
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 00515
kNelson (kNelson) 0408 5168
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1610
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+3880+9.2.5
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 9.5
kSBGY (kSBGY) 067.40 169.01
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 25.07
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) yú粵jyu4
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+4E88 U+4E88
Simplified Variant (kSimplifiedVariant) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:795
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 446.020,446.030:yú
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 0151
kTang (kTang) *iu iu
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 7
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+4F59 CJK Unified Ideograph-4F59 Glyph for U+9918 U+9918
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) dư
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1408.170:yú
Xerox Code (kXerox) 252:301