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Glyph for U+5218
Source: Noto CJK

U+5218 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​5218

U+5218 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 surname; kill, destroy. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is liú.

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+5218 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

/ ( or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: Liú in Mandarin Chinese, Lau4 in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character 劉 originally meant 'kill', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text Hundred Family Surnames. Today, it is the 4th most common surname in Mainland China as well as one of the most common surnames in the world.

Representations

System Representation
21016
UTF-8 E5 88 98
UTF-16 52 18
UTF-32 00 00 52 18
URL-Quoted %E5%88%98
HTML hex reference 刘
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 刘
Pīnyīn liú

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5218
Unicode 1 Name
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Script Han
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Case Folding Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
CCCII Mapping 273422
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping E-2327
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 3-2327
Cangjie Input Code YKLN
kCantonese lau4
kCihaiT 178.401
kDaeJaweon 0309.190
Unihan Definition surname; kill, destroy
kEACC 273422
kFennIndex 315.01
kFourCornerCode 0240
kFrequency 3
kGB0 3385
kHanYu 10327.130
kIICore AG
kIRGDaeJaweon 0309.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10327.130
kIRGKangXi 0137.301
kIRG_GSource G0-4175
kIRG_JSource J1-3337
kIRG_KPSource KP1-37B2
kIRG_KSource K2-245F
kIRG_TSource T3-2327
kJapanese リュウ ころす
kJapaneseKun KOROSU
kJapaneseOn RYUU
kJis1 1923
kKangXi 0137.301
kKorean LYU
kLau 1819
kMainlandTelegraph 0491
kMandarin liú
kMojiJoho MJ007479
kMorohashi 01908
kPhonetic 781 870A
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+21191+18.2.4 C+21191+67.4.2
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 18.4
kSMSZD2003Index 57.10 280.06
Semantic Variant Glyph for U+5289 U+5289
Simplified Variant Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218
kTGH 2013:517
kTGHZ2013 228.020:liú
Stroke Number 6
Traditional Variant Glyph for U+5218 CJK Unified Ideograph-5218 Glyph for U+5289 U+5289
UnihanCore2020 Set G
kXHC1983 0724.040:liú