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Glyph for U+536B
Source: Noto CJK

U+536B CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​536B

U+536B 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 guard, protect, defend. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is wèi.

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+536B offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Wei (; Chinese: 衞; pinyin: Wèi), commonly spelled Wey to distinguish from the contemporary larger Wei (魏) state, was an ancient Chinese state that was founded in the early Western Zhou dynasty and rose to prominence during the Spring and Autumn period. Its rulers were of the surname Ji (姬), the same as that of the rulers of Zhou. It was located in modern northeastern Henan Province, east of Jin (and later Wei 魏), and west of Cao.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 21355
UTF-8 E5 8D AB
UTF-16 53 6B
UTF-32 00 00 53 6B
URL-Quoted %E5%8D%AB
HTML hex reference 卫
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 卫
Pīnyīn wèi

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-536B
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+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
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+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
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+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
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+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
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+536B CJK Unified Ideograph-536B
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 275749
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) SLM
kCantonese (kCantonese) wai6
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) guard, protect, defend
kEACC (kEACC) 275749
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 1710
kFrequency (kFrequency) 3
kGB0 (kGB0) 4632
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10050.040
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) wèi(340)
kIICore (kIICore) AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10050.040
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0076.141
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4E40
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0076.141
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 5898
kMandarin (kMandarin) wèi
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 208
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 26.1
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 3.03 10.05
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:65
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 383.200:wèi
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 3
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+885B U+885B
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) G
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1201.080:wèi