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Glyph for U+5F20
Source: Noto CJK

U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​5F20

U+5F20 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 stretch, extend, expand; sheet. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is zhāng.

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+5F20 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Zhang ([ʈʂáŋ] ) is the third most common surname in China and Taiwan (commonly spelled as "Chang" in Taiwan), and it is one of the most common surnames in the world. Zhang is the pinyin romanization of the very common Chinese surname written in simplified characters and in traditional characters. It is spoken in the first tone: Zhāng. It is a surname that exists in many languages and cultures, corresponding to the surname 'Archer' in English for example. In the Wade-Giles system of romanization, it is romanized as "Chang", which is commonly used in Taiwan; "Cheung" is commonly used in Hong Kong as a romanization.

It is also the pinyin romanization of the less-common surnames (Zhāng), which is the 40th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. There is the even-less common (Zhǎng).

was listed 24th in the famous Song-era Hundred Family Surnames, contained in the verse 何呂施張 (He Lü Shi Zhang).

Today, it is one of the most common surnames in the world at over 100 million people worldwide.

was listed by the People's Republic of China's National Citizen ID Information System as the third-most-common surname in mainland China in April 2007, with 87.50 million bearers.

A commonly cited but erroneous factoid in the 1990 Guinness Book of Records listed it as the world's most common surname, but no comprehensive information from China was available at the time and more recent editions have not repeated the claim.

Representations

System Representation
24352
UTF-8 E5 BC A0
UTF-16 5F 20
UTF-32 00 00 5F 20
URL-Quoted %E5%BC%A0
HTML hex reference 张
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake å¼ 
Pīnyīn zhāng

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F20
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+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
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+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
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+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
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+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
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+5F20 CJK Unified Ideograph-5F20
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 273D47
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) NPO
kCantonese (kCantonese) zoeng1
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) stretch, extend, expand; sheet
kEACC (kEACC) 273D47
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 1223
kFrequency (kFrequency) 2
kGB0 (kGB0) 5337
kHanYu (kHanYu) 20992.060
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) zhāng(785)
kIICore (kIICore) AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 20992.060
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0357.211
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-5545
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0357.211
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 1728
kMandarin (kMandarin) zhāng
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 57.4
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 207.07
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:909
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 465.160:zhāng
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 7
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+5F35 U+5F35
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) G
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1455.060:zhāng