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Glyph for U+8521
Source: Noto CJK

U+8521 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8521

U+8521 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 surname; species of tortoise. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is cài.

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+8521 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Cài (Chinese: ) is a Chinese-language surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state. In 2019 it was the 38th most common surname in China, but the 9th most common in Taiwan (as of 2018), where it is usually romanized as "Tsai" (based on Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Mandarin), "Tsay", or "Chai" and the 8th most common in Singapore, where it is usually romanized as "Chua", which is based on its Teochew and Hokkien pronunciation. Koreans use Chinese-derived family names and in Korean, Cai is 채 in Hangul, "Chae" in Revised Romanization, It is also a common name in Hong Kong where it is romanized as "Choy", "Choi" or "Tsoi". In Macau, it is spelled as "Choi". In Malaysia, it is romanized as "Choi" from the Cantonese pronunciation, and "Chua" or "Chuah" from the Hokkien or Teochew pronunciation. It is romanized in the Philippines as "Chua" or "Chuah", and in Thailand as "Chuo" (ฉั่ว). Moreover, it is also romanized in Cambodia as either "Chhay" or "Chhor" among people of full Chinese descent living in Cambodia and as “Tjhai”, "Tjoa" or "Chua" in Indonesia.

Representations

System Representation
34081
UTF-8 E8 94 A1
UTF-16 85 21
UTF-32 00 00 85 21
URL-Quoted %E8%94%A1
HTML hex reference 蔡
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 蔡
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) F3 F9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) E8 F1
Pīnyīn cài

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8521
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+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
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+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
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+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
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+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
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+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) BDB2
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 215572
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-6E5B
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-6E5B
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) TBOF
kCantonese (kCantonese) coi3
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1164.502
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1517.170
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) surname; species of tortoise
kEACC (kEACC) 215572
kFenn (kFenn) 515K
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 541.07
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4490.1
kFrequency (kFrequency) 4
kGB0 (kGB0) 1844
kGB1 (kGB1) 1844
kGSR (kGSR) 0337i
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 3531
kHanYu (kHanYu) 53282.100
kHangul (kHangul) 채:0N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 53282.100:cài,sà,cā
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1517.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 53282.100
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1055.030
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-324C
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-BDB2
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-6871
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-EFBF
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-7379
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-6E5B
kJapanese (kJapanese) サイ サツ サチ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) AKUTA OTOROERU HERASU
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SAI SATSU
kJis0 (kJis0) 7281
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1055.030
kKorean (kKorean) CHAY SAL
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 5591
kMandarin (kMandarin) cài
kMatthews (kMatthews) 6673
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 3445a
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ022701 MJ022701:E0101 MJ022702:E0102 MJ060130:E0103
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 31818:E0102
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 54 246
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+6426+140.3.11
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 140.11
kSBGY (kSBGY) 382.54
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 597.03
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) cài粵coi3
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:3071
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 031.050:cài
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 5591
kTang (kTang) *tsɑ̀i
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 14
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0101.040:cài
Xerox Code (kXerox) 254:100