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Glyph for U+55BC
Source: Noto CJK

U+55BC CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​55BC

U+55BC 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 (Cant.) used phonetically in English loan-words (e.g., cap, keep). Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is jiē.

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+55BC 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
21948
UTF-8 E5 96 BC
UTF-16 55 BC
UTF-32 00 00 55 BC
URL-Quoted %E5%96%BC
HTML hex reference 喼
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake å–¼
Pīnyīn jiē

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Case Folding Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Cangjie Input Code RNSP
kCantonese gip1
kCheungBauer 030/09;RNSP;gep1,gip1,kep1,kip1
kCheungBauerIndex 367.03 367.04 367.05 367.06 367.07 367.08 367.09
Unihan Definition (Cant.) used phonetically in English loan-words (e.g., cap, keep)
kHanYu 10658.111
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10658.111
kIRGKangXi 0201.121
kIRG_GSource GH-1228
kIRG_HSource H-9BDA
kJapanese きゅう
kKangXi 0201.121
kLau 924
kMandarin jiē
kMeyerWempe 1174
kMojiJoho MJ057169
kPhonetic 1483*
kPseudoGB1 9216
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 30.9
Stroke Number 12
UnihanCore2020 Set H