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Glyph for U+8579
Source: Noto CJK

U+8579 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8579

U+8579 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 Ipomoea aquatica used as a vegetable. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is wèng.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+8579 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 34169
UTF-8 E8 95 B9
UTF-16 85 79
UTF-32 00 00 85 79
URL-Quoted %E8%95%B9
HTML-Escape 蕹
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 蕹
Pīnyīn wèng

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8579
Unicode 1 Name —
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Script Han
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Case Folding Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✔
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base ✔
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✔
ID Start ✔
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✔
Indic Mantra Category —
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✔
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Other
White Space ✘
XID Continue ✔
XID Start ✔
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment —
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+8579 CJK Unified Ideograph-8579
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping EE52
CCCII Mapping 23262D
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 2-5E7E
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 2-5E7E
Cangjie Input Code TYVG
kCantonese ung3
kCihaiT 1171.307
kDaeJaweon 1523.200
Unihan Definition Ipomoea aquatica used as a vegetable
kEACC 23262D
kFourCornerCode 4421.4
kGB0 6219
kGB1 6219
kHanYu 53306.050
kHanyuPinyin 53306.050:yōng,wèng
kIICore CT
kIRGDaeJaweon 1523.200
kIRGDaiKanwaZiten 32057
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53306.050
kIRGKangXi 1059.380
kIRG_GSource G0-5E33
kIRG_HSource HB2-EE52
kIRG_JSource J1-5953
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6FF4
kIRG_KSource K2-5972
kIRG_TSource T2-5E7E
kJapaneseKun ATSUMERU
kJapaneseOn YOU YU
kJis1 5751
kKPS1 6FF4
kKangXi 1059.380
kMandarin wèng
kMatthews 7558
kMorohashi 32057
kPhonetic 1652
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+22375+140.3.13
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi) 140.13
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 140.13
kTGH 2013:7844
kTGHZ2013 386.150:wèng
Stroke Number 16
UnihanCore2020 Set GHMT
kXHC1983 1208.120:wèng
Xerox Code 321:111