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Glyph for U+8A31
Source: Noto CJK

U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8A31

U+8A31 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 allow, permit; promise; betroth. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xǔ.

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+8A31 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Xu (simplified Chinese: 许; traditional Chinese: 許; pinyin: Xǔ; Wade–Giles: Hsü3; Jyutping: Heoi2) is a Chinese surname. In the Wade-Giles system of romanization, it is rendered as Hsu, which is commonly used in Taiwan. It is different from Xu (surname 徐), which is represented by a different character.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 35377
UTF-8 E8 A8 B1
UTF-16 8A 31
UTF-32 00 00 8A 31
URL-Quoted %E8%A8%B1
HTML-Escape 許
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 許
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) FA C9
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) B5 F6
Pīnyīn xǔ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A31
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+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Case Folding Glyph for U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
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+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base ✔
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✔
ID Start ✔
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✔
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+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
NFKC Quick Check Yes
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+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
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+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A31
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping B35C
CCCII Mapping 215848
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 1-5D42
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 1-5D42
Cangjie Input Code YROJ
kCantonese heoi2
kCihaiT 1239.402
kCowles 1218
kDaeJaweon 1618.030
Unihan Definition allow, permit; promise; betroth
kEACC 215848
kFenn 37B
kFennIndex 190.12
kFourCornerCode 0864.0
kFrequency 2
kGB1 4877
kGSR 0060i
kGradeLevel 2
kHKGlyph 3767
kHanYu 63946.090
kHangul 허:0E
kHanyuPinlu xǔ(1465)
kHanyuPinyin 63946.090:xǔ,hǔ
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1618.030
kIRGDaiKanwaZiten 35298
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63946.090
kIRGKangXi 1151.140
kIRG_GSource G1-506D
kIRG_HSource HB1-B35C
kIRG_JSource J0-3576
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F3AE
kIRG_KSource K0-7A49
kIRG_TSource T1-5D42
kIRG_VSource V1-667E
kJapaneseKun YURUSU BAKARI MOTO
kJapaneseOn KYO KO
kJis0 2186
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKPS0 F3AE
kKSC0 9041
kKangXi 1151.140
kKarlgren 167
kKorean HE HO
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kLau 1249
kMandarin xǔ
kMatthews 2825
kMeyerWempe 819
kMorohashi 35298
kNelson 4324
kPhonetic 518 950
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+1680+149.7.4
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi) 149.4
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 149.4
kSBGY 258.03
Simplified Variant Glyph for U+8BB8 U+8BB8
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 6079
kTang *xiǔ
Stroke Number 11
UnihanCore2020 Set HJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation hứa
Xerox Code 242:071