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Glyph for U+88AE
Source: Noto CJK

U+88AE CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​88AE

U+88AE 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 used as a synonym for Glyph for U+4F60 U+4F60 你 when referring to deity. 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+88AE behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

This is a so-called Kanji ghost character or 幽霊文字 (Yūrei Moji). It was erroneously added to the JIS standard in 1978 and doesn’t have any real-world use. See this post and this entry for a discussion. The ghost characters are: U+7A43, U+7CAB, U+6327, U+6A78, U+81A4, U+88AE, U+95A0, U+599B, U+6683, U+6926, U+8EC5, U+9D48, U+6077, U+78B5, U+99F2, U+58B8, U+58E5, U+5F41, U+87D0, and U+69DE.

Representations

System Representation
34990
UTF-8 E8 A2 AE
UTF-16 88 AE
UTF-32 00 00 88 AE
URL-Quoted %E8%A2%AE
HTML hex reference 袮
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 袮
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) EA D9
Pīnyīn

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Case Folding Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Cangjie Input Code LOF
kCantonese ji5
Unihan Definition used as a synonym for Glyph for U+4F60 U+4F60 你 when referring to deity
kEACC 4D3032
kFourCornerCode 3829.0
kHanYu 53083.071
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53083.071
kIRGKangXi 1115.211
kIRG_GSource GE-4C26
kIRG_HSource H-99D0
kIRG_JSource J0-6A59
kJapaneseOn NE
kJis0 7457
kKangXi 1115.211
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ023966
kMorohashi H553
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+6590+145.5.5
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 145.5
Specialized Semantic Variant Glyph for U+4F60 U+4F60 Glyph for U+59B3 U+59B3 Glyph for U+60A8 U+60A8 Glyph for U+7962 U+7962
Stroke Number 10
UnihanCore2020 Set HJ