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Glyph for U+859B
Source: Noto CJK

U+859B CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​859B

U+859B 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 kind of marsh grass; feudal state. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xuē.

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+859B offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Xue ([ɕɥé]) is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In Hong Kong and Macau it is usually romanized through its Cantonese pronunciation Sit. In Korean, it corresponds to Seol (설), in Japanese to Setsu and in Vietnamese to Tiết. in Indonesia and Netherlands, it is commonly spelled as Siek. According to the 2010 Chinese Census, it is the 76th most common surname in China, a sharp decline from 48th in 1982. In a study by geneticist Yuan Yida on the distribution of Chinese surnames, people who carry the name Xue are dispersed throughout the country and is most heavily concentrated in Shanxi. It is the 68th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 34203
UTF-8 E8 96 9B
UTF-16 85 9B
UTF-32 00 00 85 9B
URL-Quoted %E8%96%9B
HTML hex reference 薛
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake è–›
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E0 E0
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) E9 AD
Pīnyīn xuē

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-859B
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+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
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+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
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+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
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+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
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+859B CJK Unified Ideograph-859B
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) C1A7
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 215623
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-7531
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-7531
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) THRJ
kCantonese (kCantonese) sit3
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1170.401
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1525.170
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) kind of marsh grass; feudal state
kEACC (kEACC) 215623
kFenn (kFenn) 157G
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 194.02
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4474.1
kFrequency (kFrequency) 5
kGB0 (kGB0) 4906
kGB1 (kGB1) 4906
kGSR (kGSR) 0289e
kHanYu (kHanYu) 53303.080
kHangul (kHangul) 설:0N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 53303.080:xuē
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1525.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 53303.080
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1061.220
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-5126
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-C1A7
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-692D
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E2D7
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-6060
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-7531
kJapanese (kJapanese) セツ セチ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) KAWARAYOMOGI HAMASUGE
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SETSU SECHI
kJis0 (kJis0) 7313
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1061.220
kKorean (kKorean) SEL
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 5641
kMandarin (kMandarin) xuē
kMatthews (kMatthews) 2653
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ022940 MJ022940:E0101 MJ022941:E0102
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 32123:E0102
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1215
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+6452+140.3.13
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 140.13
kSBGY (kSBGY) 496.25
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 601.09
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) xuē粵sit3
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:3322
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 416.050:xuē
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 5641
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 16
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1308.090:xuē
Xerox Code (kXerox) 257:043