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Glyph for U+8BB8
Source: Noto CJK

U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8BB8

U+8BB8 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 allow, permit; promise; betroth. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xǔ.

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+8BB8 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

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

Representations

System Representation
Nº 35768
UTF-8 E8 AE B8
UTF-16 8B B8
UTF-32 00 00 8B B8
URL-Quoted %E8%AE%B8
HTML hex reference 许
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 许
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) D0 ED
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) D0 ED
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) D0 ED
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) 7E 7B 50 6D 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 41 50 6D 1B 28 42
Pīnyīn xǔ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8BB8
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+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
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+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
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) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
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+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
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+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
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+8BB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-8BB8
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 275848
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) IVOJ
kCantonese (kCantonese) heoi2
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) allow, permit; promise; betroth
kEACC (kEACC) 275848
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 3874
kGB0 (kGB0) 4877
kHanYu (kHanYu) 63947.010
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) xǔ(1465)
kIICore (kIICore) AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 63947.010
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1188.181
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-506D
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 6079
kMandarin (kMandarin) xǔ
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 149'.4
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:554
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 413.010:xǔ
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 6
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+8A31 U+8A31
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) G
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1301.080:xǔ