This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as administrative division, state. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is zhōu.
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+5DDE offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Zhou (Chinese: 州; pinyin: zhōu; lit. 'land') were historical administrative and political divisions of China. Formally established during the Han dynasty, zhou existed continuously for over 2000 years until the 1912 establishment of the Republic of China. Zhou were also once used in Korea (주, ju), Vietnam (Vietnamese: châu) and Japan (Hepburn: shū).
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
24030
UTF-8
E5 B7 9E
UTF-16
5D DE
UTF-32
00 00 5D DE
URL-Quoted
%E5%B7%9E
HTML hex reference
州
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
å·ž
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A6 7B
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A6 7B
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
8F 42
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
F1 B6
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A6 7B
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
BD A3
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
BD A3
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
BD A3
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
F1 B6
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
D6 DD
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
D6 DD
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
D6 DD
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 56 5D 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 3D 23 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 3D 23 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 3D 23 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 3D 23 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 3D 23 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 3D 23 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 71 36 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
F3 B6
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
8F 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
8F 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
8F 42
Pīnyīn
zhōu
RFC 5137
\u'5DDE'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u5DDE
C and C++
\u5DDE
C#
\u5DDE
CSS
\005DDE
Excel
=UNICHAR(24030)
Go
\u5DDE
JavaScript
\u5DDE
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{5dde}
JSON
\u5DDE
Java
\u5DDE
Lua
\u{5DDE}
Matlab
char(24030)
Perl
"\x{5DDE}"
PHP
\u{5dde}
PostgreSQL
U&'\5DDE'
PowerShell
`u{5DDE}
Python
\u5DDE
Ruby
\u{5dde}
Rust
\u{5dde}
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