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Glyph for U+897F
Source: Noto Serif Tangut

U+897F CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​897F

U+897F 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 west(ern); westward, occident; Kangxi radical 146. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xi.

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+897F offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

西, meaning "west", may refer to:

  • Radical 146 in the Kangxi Dictionary system of classifying Chinese characters
  • Nishi (surname), Japanese surname
  • Xi (surname), Chinese surname

Representations

System Representation
Nº 35199
UTF-8 E8 A5 BF
UTF-16 89 7F
UTF-32 00 00 89 7F
URL-Quoted %E8%A5%BF
HTML hex reference 西
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 西
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E0 A4
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) C0 BE
Pīnyīn xi

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-897F
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+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
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+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
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+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
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+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
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+897F CJK Unified Ideograph-897F
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A6E8
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 215824
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4869
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4869
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) MCW
kCantonese (kCantonese) sai1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1221.603
kCowles (kCowles) 3584
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1595.190
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) west(ern); westward, occident; Kangxi radical 146
kEACC (kEACC) 215824
kFenn (kFenn) 775A
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 158.04
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 1060.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 2
kGB0 (kGB0) 4687
kGB1 (kGB1) 4687
kGSR (kGSR) 0594a
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 1
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 3732
kHanYu (kHanYu) 42805.020
kHangul (kHangul) 서:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) xi(902) xī(738)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 42805.020:xī
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1595.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 42805.020
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1128.100
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4E77
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A6E8
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-403E
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E1F9
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-6024
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4869
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-6665
kJapanese (kJapanese) セイ サイ シ セン アク ヤク にし
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) NISHI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SEI SAI
kJis0 (kJis0) 3230
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1128.100
kKorean (kKorean) SE
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 2628
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 6007
kMandarin (kMandarin) xī
kMatthews (kMatthews) 2460
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 2539
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ024196 MJ024196:E0101 MJ024197:E0102
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 34763 34763:E0101
kNelson (kNelson) 4273
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1112
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+2658+146.6.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 146.0
kSBGY (kSBGY) 090.12
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 635.11
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) xī粵sai1
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:384
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 391.030:xī
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 6007
kTang (kTang) *sei
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 6
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) tây
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1226.160:xī
Xerox Code (kXerox) 241:242