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Glyph for U+9648
Source: Noto CJK

U+9648 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​9648

U+9648 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 exhibit, display; plead; a surname. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is chén.

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+9648 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Chen ([ʈʂʰə̌n] ) (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Chén; Wade–Giles: Ch'ên; Jyutping: Can4; Cantonese Yale: Chàhn) is a common Chinese-language surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore (2000). Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and Hong Kong. It is the most common surname in Xiamen, the ancestral hometown of many overseas Hoklo.

Chen was listed 10th in the Hundred Family Surnames poem, in the verse 馮陳褚衛 (Feng Chen Chu Wei).

In Cantonese, it is usually romanized as Chan (as in Jackie Chan), most widely used by those from Hong Kong, and also found in Macau and Singapore. It is also sometimes spelled Chun. The spelling Tan usually comes from Southern Min dialects (e.g. Hokkien), while some Teochew dialect speakers use the spelling Tang. In Hakka and Taishanese, the name is spelled Chin. Spellings based on Wu include Zen and Tchen. There are many spellings based on its Hainanese pronunciations, including Dan, Seng, and Sin.

In Vietnam, this surname is written as Trần (in Quốc Ngữ) and is 2nd most common. In Thailand, this surname is the most common surname of Thai Chinese and is often pronounced according to Teochew dialect as Tang. In Cambodia, this surname is transliterated as Taing. In Japanese, the surname is transliterated Chin (ちん). In Korean it is transliterated Jin or Chin (진).

In Indonesia, many Chinese Indonesians who originally had this surname adopted the Indonesian surname Hartanto.

Chen is 5th most common in mainland China, but 4th most common in the world due to Chen's larger overseas population. With all its various spellings and pronunciations, there are around 80-100 million people surnamed 陳 / 陈 worldwide.

The surname Cheng (程) is sometimes romanized as Chen (e.g. John S. Chen). Another less common Chinese surname 諶 / 谌 (Shen) can also be romanized as Chen.

Representations

System Representation
38472
UTF-8 E9 99 88
UTF-16 96 48
UTF-32 00 00 96 48
URL-Quoted %E9%99%88
HTML hex reference 陈
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 陈
Pīnyīn chén

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9648
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+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
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+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
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+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
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+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
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+9648 CJK Unified Ideograph-9648
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 275F23
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) NLKD
kCantonese (kCantonese) can4
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) exhibit, display; plead; a surname
kEACC (kEACC) 275F23
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 7429
kFrequency (kFrequency) 2
kGB0 (kGB0) 1934
kHanYu (kHanYu) 64120.050
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) chén(24)
kIICore (kIICore) AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 64120.050
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1349.051
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-3342
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1349.051
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 7115
kMandarin (kMandarin) chén
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 67 1126
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 170.5
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 750.08
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:914
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 042.030:chén
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 7
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+9673 U+9673
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) G
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0133.020:chén