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Glyph for U+59C9
Source: Noto CJK

U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​59C9

U+59C9 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 elder sister. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is zǐ.

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+59C9 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 22985
UTF-8 E5 A7 89
UTF-16 59 C9
UTF-32 00 00 59 C9
URL-Quoted %E5%A7%89
HTML hex reference 姉
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 姉
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) FB A6
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) 8E 6F
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) ED AB
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) BB D0
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) BB D0
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) BB D0
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) ED AB
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) 8A 97
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 8A 97
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 3B 50 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 3B 50 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 3B 50 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 3B 50 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 3B 50 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 3B 50 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 6D 2B 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) F1 AB
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) 8E 6F
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 8E 6F
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 8E 6F
Pīnyīn zǐ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C9
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+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
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+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
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) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
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+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
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+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
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+59C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-59C9
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 333963
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) E-283F
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 3-283F
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) VJB
kCantonese (kCantonese) zi2
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 380.305
kCowles (kCowles) 4669
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0523.210
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) elder sister
kEACC (kEACC) 333963
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 585.04
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4042.7
kGSR (kGSR) 0554c
kHanYu (kHanYu) 21029.160
kHangul (kHangul) 자:0N
kIICore (kIICore) AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0523.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 21029.160
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0258.140
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) GE-3560
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) H-FBA6
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3B50
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E6AC
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-6D2B
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T3-283F
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V0-3474
kJapanese (kJapanese) シ あね ねえさん
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) ANE
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SHI
kJis0 (kJis0) 2748
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0258.140
kKorean (kKorean) CA
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kMandarin (kMandarin) zǐ
kMatthews (kMatthews) 6948
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 3533
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009632
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 06165
kNelson (kNelson) 1207
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 138
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+2206+38.3.5 V+13452+38.3.4
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 38.5
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 153.12
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+59CA CJK Unified Ideograph-59CA
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 7
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HJKP
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) chị
Xerox Code (kXerox) 322:173