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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 .

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
Nº 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

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 ✘
Ideographic ✔
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
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)
kHKSCS 9BDA
kHanYu 10658.111
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10658.111
kIRGKangXi 0201.121
kIRG_GSource GH-1228
kIRG_HSource H-9BDA
kKangXi 0201.121
kLau 924
kMandarin jiē
kMeyerWempe 1174
kPhonetic 1483*
kPseudoGB1 9216
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi) 30.9
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 30.9
Stroke Number 12
UnihanCore2020 Set H