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Glyph for U+8596
Source: Noto CJK

U+8596 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8596

U+8596 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 empty, hungry-looking. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is .

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+8596 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
34198
UTF-8 E8 96 96
UTF-16 85 96
UTF-32 00 00 85 96
URL-Quoted %E8%96%96
HTML hex reference 薖
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake è––
Pīnyīn

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8596
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+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Case Folding Glyph for U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
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+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
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+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
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+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
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+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping EE48
CCCII Mapping 232647
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 2-5E74
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 2-5E74
Cangjie Input Code TYBB
kCantonese gwo1
kCihaiT 1170.601
kDaeJaweon 1525.110
Unihan Definition empty, hungry-looking
kFourCornerCode 4430.2
kGB3 7272
kGSR 0018h
kHanYu 53280.050
kHanyuPinyin 53280.050:kē
kIRGDaeJaweon 1525.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53280.050
kIRGKangXi 1061.150
kIRG_GSource G3-6868
kIRG_HSource HB2-EE48
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6FBE
kIRG_KSource K2-5A23
kIRG_TSource T2-5E74
kJapanese
kKangXi 1061.150
kMandarin
kMatthews 3399
kMeyerWempe 1409c
kMojiJoho MJ022931 MJ022931:E0100 MJ022930:E0101
kMorohashi 32116 32116:E0100
kPhonetic 745
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 140.13
kSBGY 164.01
Simplified Variant Glyph for U+30C3E U+30C3E
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 5639
Stroke Number 14
UnihanCore2020 Set HMT
Xerox Code 306:162