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Glyph for U+59B9
Source: Noto CJK

U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​59B9

U+59B9 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 younger sister. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is mèi.

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+59B9 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 22969
UTF-8 E5 A6 B9
UTF-16 59 B9
UTF-32 00 00 59 B9
URL-Quoted %E5%A6%B9
HTML hex reference 妹
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 妹
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) D8 D9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) CB E5
Pīnyīn mèi

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59B9
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+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
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+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
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+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
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+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
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+59B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59B9
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A966
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 21395C
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4C68
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4C68
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) VJD
kCantonese (kCantonese) mui6
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 380.505
kCowles (kCowles) 2765 2776
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0522.230
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) younger sister
kEACC (kEACC) 21395C
kFenn (kFenn) 495A
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 334.05
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4549.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 3
kGB0 (kGB0) 3535
kGB1 (kGB1) 3535
kGSR (kGSR) 0531k
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 1
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0888
kHanYu (kHanYu) 21034.060
kHangul (kHangul) 매:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) mèi(158) mei(100)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 21034.060:mèi
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0522.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 21034.060
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0257.280
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4343
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A966
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-4B65
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-DCBC
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-5859
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4C68
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-516C
kJapanese (kJapanese) マイ バイ メ いもうと いも
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) IMOUTO IMO
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) MAI
kJis0 (kJis0) 4369
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0257.280
kKorean (kKorean) MAY
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 2212 2213
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 1188
kMandarin (kMandarin) mèi
kMatthews (kMatthews) 4410
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 1887 1898
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009616
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 06138
kNelson (kNelson) 1204
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 894
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+3731+38.3.5
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 38.5
kSBGY (kSBGY) 387.48
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 153.20
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) mèi粵mui6
Spoofing Variant (kSpoofingVariant) U+59BA
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:1324
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 246.190:mèi
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 1188
kTang (kTang) *mə̀i
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 8
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) muội
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0774.110:mèi
Xerox Code (kXerox) 243:247