U+9673 CJK Unified Ideograph-9673
U+9673 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as exhibit, display; plead; surname. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is chén.
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+9673 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:
Chen ([ʈʂʰə̌n] (listen)) (simplified Chinese: 陈; traditional Chinese: 陳; pinyin: Chén; Wade–Giles: Ch'ên; Jyutping: Can4; Cantonese Yale: Chàhn) is a common Chinese 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. Chan is also widely used in Macao and Malaysia. It is also sometimes spelled Chun. In many Southern Min dialects (including dialects of Hainan, Fujian, and Taiwan), the name is pronounced Tan, while in Teochew, it is pronounced Tang. In Hakka and Taishanese, the name is spelled Chin. In Wu it is pronounced Zen or Tchen.
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, the surname is transliterated as 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 |
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Nº | 38515 |
UTF-8 | E9 99 B3 |
UTF-16 | 96 73 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 96 73 |
URL-Quoted | %E9%99%B3 |
HTML hex reference | 陳 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 陳 |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | F2 E7 |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | C4 C4 |
Pīnyīn | chén |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9673 | |
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CJK Unified Ideographs | |
Other Letter | |
Han | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
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NA | |
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Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
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Wide | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Ideographic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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B3AF | |
215F23 | |
1-5D73 | |
1-5D73 | |
NLDW | |
can4 | |
1424.501 | |
142 470 | |
1856.060 | |
exhibit, display; plead; surname | |
215F23 | |
504D | |
26.09 | |
7529.6 | |
2 | |
1934 | |
0373a | |
3 | |
4382 | |
64136.010 | |
진:0E | |
chén(24) | |
64136.010:chén,zhèn | |
ATJHKMP | |
1856.060 | |
41698 | |
64136.010 | |
1353.190 | |
G1-3342 | |
HB1-B3AF | |
J0-4444 | |
KP0-EBB9 | |
K0-7267 | |
T1-5D73 | |
V1-6B2E | |
TSURANERU NOBERU FURUI | |
CHIN JIN | |
3636 | |
2010 | |
EBB9 | |
8271 | |
1353.190 | |
CIN | |
2007 | |
217 | |
chén | |
339 | |
152 158 | |
41698 | |
5001 | |
67 1126 1403 | |
C+3040+170.3.8 | |
170.8 | |
170.8 | |
104.03 393.11 | |
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7115 | |
*djhin | |
10 | |
HJKMPT | |
trần | |
0133.021:chén 0133.022:zhèn | |
244:310 |