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Glyph for U+5996
Source: Noto CJK

U+5996 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​5996

U+5996 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 strange, weird, supernatural. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is yāo.

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+5996 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 22934
UTF-8 E5 A6 96
UTF-16 59 96
UTF-32 00 00 59 96
URL-Quoted %E5%A6%96
HTML hex reference 妖
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 妖
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E8 ED
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) CD C5
Pīnyīn yāo

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5996
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+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
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+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
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+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
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+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
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+5996 CJK Unified Ideograph-5996
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A7AF
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 213957
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-496F
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-496F
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) VHK
kCantonese (kCantonese) jiu1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 379.602
kCowles (kCowles) 1380
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0520.180
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) strange, weird, supernatural
kEACC (kEACC) 213957
kFenn (kFenn) 463G
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 616.11 617.01
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4243.4
kFrequency (kFrequency) 5
kGB0 (kGB0) 4993
kGB1 (kGB1) 4993
kGSR (kGSR) 1141d
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0884
kHanYu (kHanYu) 21031.070
kHangul (kHangul) 요:0N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 21031.070:yāo,jiǎo
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0520.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 21031.070
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0256.200
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-517D
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A7AF
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-4D45
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-FAA2
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-686D
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-496F
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-5165
kJapanese (kJapanese) ヨウ コウ キョウ あやしい
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) NAMAMEKU
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) YOU
kJis0 (kJis0) 4537
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0256.200
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 216
kKorean (kKorean) YO
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kLau (kLau) 3506
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 1179
kMandarin (kMandarin) yāo
kMatthews (kMatthews) 7279
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 910
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009581
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 06086
kNelson (kNelson) 1198
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1594
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+3887+38.3.4
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 38.4
kSBGY (kSBGY) 151.01
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 152.14
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) yāo粵jiu2,jiu1
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:920
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 427.040:yāo
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 1179
kTang (kTang) *qyɛu
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 7
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) yêu
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1340.020:yāo
Xerox Code (kXerox) 251:366