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Glyph for U+8FAB
Source: Noto CJK

U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8FAB

U+8FAB 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 braid; pigtail, plait, queue. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is biàn.

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

Representations

System Representation
Nº 36779
UTF-8 E8 BE AB
UTF-16 8F AB
UTF-32 00 00 8F AB
URL-Quoted %E8%BE%AB
HTML hex reference 辫
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 辫
Pīnyīn biàn

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FAB
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+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
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+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
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+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
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+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
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+8FAB CJK Unified Ideograph-8FAB
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 27517A
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) YJVMJ
kCantonese (kCantonese) bin1
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) braid; pigtail, plait, queue
kEACC (kEACC) 27517A
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 0044
kFrequency (kFrequency) 5
kGB0 (kGB0) 1772
kHanYu (kHanYu) 64043.010
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) biàn(55)
kIICore (kIICore) AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 64043.010
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1252.041
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-3168
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1252.041
kLau (kLau) 94
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 4947
kMandarin (kMandarin) biàn
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 160.10
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:3426
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 022.040:biàn
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 17
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+8FAE U+8FAE
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) G
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0066.010:biàn