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Glyph for U+88AE
Source: Noto CJK

U+88AE CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​88AE

U+88AE 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 used as a synonym for Glyph for U+4F60 U+4F60 你 when referring to deity. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is mí.

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+88AE offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

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
Nº 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 mí

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
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+88AE CJK Unified Ideograph-88AE
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) LOF
kCantonese (kCantonese) ji5
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) used as a synonym for Glyph for U+4F60 U+4F60 你 when referring to deity
kEACC (kEACC) 4D3032
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 3829.0
kHanYu (kHanYu) 53083.071
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 53083.071
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1115.211
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) GE-4C26
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) H-99D0
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-6A59
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) NE
kJis0 (kJis0) 7457
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1115.211
kMandarin (kMandarin) mí
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ023966
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) H553
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+6590+145.5.5
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 145.5
Specialized Semantic Variant (kSpecializedSemanticVariant) 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 (kTotalStrokes) 10
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HJ