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Glyph for U+59D3
Source: Noto CJK

U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​59D3

U+59D3 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 one's family name; clan, people. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xìng.

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+59D3 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use, but the great proportion of Han Chinese people use only a relatively small number of these surnames; 19 surnames are used by around half of the Han Chinese people, while 100 surnames are used by around 87% of the population. A report in 2019 gives the most common Chinese surnames as Wang and Li, each shared by over 100 million people in China. The remaining eight of the top ten most common Chinese surnames are Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu and Zhou.

Two distinct types of Chinese surnames existed in ancient China, namely xing (Chinese: ; pinyin: xìng) ancestral clan names and shi (Chinese: ; pinyin: shì) branch lineage names. Later, the two terms began to be used interchangeably, and in the present day, xing refers to the surname and shi may refer either the clan or maiden name. The two terms may also be used together as xingshi for family names or surnames. Most Chinese surnames (xing) in current use were originally shi. The earliest xing surname might be matrilinear, but Han Chinese family name has been exclusively patrilineal for a couple of millennia, passing from father to children. This system of patrilineal surnames is unusual in the world in its long period of continuity and depth of written history, and Chinese people may view their surnames as part of their shared kinship and Han Chinese identity. Women do not normally change their surnames upon marriage, except sometimes in places with more western influences such as Hong Kong. Traditionally Chinese surnames have been exogamous in that people tend to marry those with different surnames.

The most common Chinese surnames were compiled in the Song dynasty work Hundred Family Surnames, which lists over 400 names. The colloquial expressions lǎobǎixìng (老百姓; lit. "old hundred surnames") and bǎixìng (百姓, lit. "hundred surnames") are used in Chinese to mean "ordinary folks", "the people", or "commoners".

Representations

System Representation
22995
UTF-8 E5 A7 93
UTF-16 59 D3
UTF-32 00 00 59 D3
URL-Quoted %E5%A7%93
HTML hex reference 姓
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 姓
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E0 F3
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) C0 AB
Pīnyīn xìng

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59D3
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+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
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+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
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+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
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+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
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+59D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-59D3
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A96D
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 213962
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4C6F
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4C6F
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) VHQM
kCantonese (kCantonese) sing3
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 381.602
kCowles (kCowles) 3657
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0524.090
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) one's family name; clan, people
kEACC (kEACC) 213962
kFenn (kFenn) 41A
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 186.01
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4541.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 4
kGB0 (kGB0) 4853
kGB1 (kGB1) 4853
kGSR (kGSR) 0812q
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 1
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0898
kHanYu (kHanYu) 21037.120
kHangul (kHangul) 성:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) xìng(232)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 21037.120:xìng,shēng
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0524.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 21037.120
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0259.050
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-5055
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A96D
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-402B
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E2E9
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-6073
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4C6F
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-5174
kJapanese (kJapanese) セイ ショウ ソウ かばね
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) KABANE
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SEI SHOU
kJis0 (kJis0) 3211
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0259.050
kKorean (kKorean) SENG
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 2724 2825
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 1198
kMandarin (kMandarin) xìng
kMatthews (kMatthews) 2770
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 2815
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009643
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 06178
kNelson (kNelson) 1203
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1130
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+2639+38.3.5 C+2639+100.5.3
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 38.5
kSBGY (kSBGY) 431.07
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 154.11
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) xìng粵sing3
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:1327
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 409.160:xìng
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 1198
kTang (kTang) siɛ̀ng
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 8
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) tính
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1293.010:xìng
Xerox Code (kXerox) 246:173