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Glyph for U+558E
Source: Noto CJK

U+558E CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​558E

U+558E 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 a wry mouth; (Cant.) a final particle expressing contradiction, quotation, etc.. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is wāi.

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+558E behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

Representations

System Representation
21902
UTF-8 E5 96 8E
UTF-16 55 8E
UTF-32 00 00 55 8E
URL-Quoted %E5%96%8E
HTML hex reference 喎
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake å–Ž
Pīnyīn wāi

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Case Folding Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
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+558E CJK Unified Ideograph-558E
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping D87B
CCCII Mapping 217145
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 2-3A5F
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 2-3A5F
Cangjie Input Code RBBR
kCantonese waa1
kCheungBauer 030/09;RBBR;wo3,wo4,wo5,wo6
kCheungBauerIndex 369.06 369.07 369.08 369.09
kDaeJaweon 0419.170
Unihan Definition a wry mouth; (Cant.) a final particle expressing contradiction, quotation, etc.
kEACC 217145
kFourCornerCode 6702.7
kHanYu 10641.110
kHanyuPinyin 10641.110:wāi
kIICore BHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 0419.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10641.110
kIRGKangXi 0198.090
kIRG_GSource GE-3363
kIRG_HSource HB2-D87B
kIRG_JSource J13-2F2B
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3A51
kIRG_KSource K2-2774
kIRG_TSource T2-3A5F
kIRG_VSource V1-4F5A
kJIS0213 1,15,11
kJapanese
kJapaneseKun YUGAMU
kJapaneseOn KA
kJis1 2174
kKangXi 0198.090
kLau 3246 3247 3248
kMandarin wāi
kMatthews 3544
kMojiJoho MJ008444
kMorohashi 03925
kPhonetic 700
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+14395+30.3.9
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 30.9
kSBGY 093.25
kSMSZD2003Index 110.07
kSMSZD2003Readings wāi粵waa1
Simplified Variant Glyph for U+359E U+359E
Stroke Number 11
UnihanCore2020 Set HMT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation oa
kXHC1983 1177.081:wāi