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Glyph for U+59E5
Source: Noto CJK

U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​59E5

U+59E5 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 maternal grandmother; midwife. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is lǎo.

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+59E5 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 23013
UTF-8 E5 A7 A5
UTF-16 59 E5
UTF-32 00 00 59 E5
URL-Quoted %E5%A7%A5
HTML hex reference 姥
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 姥
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) B1 B8
Pīnyīn lǎo

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59E5
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+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
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+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
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+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
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+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
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+59E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-59E5
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) ABBE
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 21396D
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-5060
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-5060
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) VJKP
kCantonese (kCantonese) mou5
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 384.106
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0526.080
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) maternal grandmother; midwife
kEACC (kEACC) 21396D
kFenn (kFenn) 189G
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 290.03 350.07
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4441.1
kFrequency (kFrequency) 5
kGB0 (kGB0) 3249
kGB1 (kGB1) 3249
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0907
kHanYu (kHanYu) 21042.100
kHangul (kHangul) 모:1N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 21042.100:mǔ,lǎo
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHM
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0526.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 21042.100
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0260.090
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4051
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-ABBE
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3138
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP1-3D27
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K1-604A
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-5060
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-5178
kJapanese (kJapanese) ボ モ うば
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) UBA BABA
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) BO MO
kJinmeiyoKanji (kJinmeiyoKanji) 2010
kJis0 (kJis0) 1724
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0260.090
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 515
kKorean (kKorean) MO
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 1209
kMandarin (kMandarin) lǎo
kMatthews (kMatthews) 4583
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009663
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 06216
kNelson (kNelson) 1213
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 824
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+1242+38.3.6 C+1242+125.6.3
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 38.6
kSBGY (kSBGY) 264.24
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 155.15
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) mǔ粵mou5 lǎo粵lou5
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+59C6 U+59C6
Specialized Semantic Variant (kSpecializedSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+59C6 U+59C6
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:1736
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 211.060:lǎo
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 1209
kTang (kTang) mǒ
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 9
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJMT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) mụ
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0682.050:lǎo 0805.070:mǔ
Xerox Code (kXerox) 257:130