U+519D "冝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
冝
U+519D "冝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese (Han) character that serves as a variant form of the more common character "宜" (yí), meaning "suitable," "proper," or "appropriate." Found in historical and classical texts, this character is composed of the radical "冖" (a roof or cover) and the phonetic component "且," though its structure and usage often represent a calligraphic or regional alternative to its standard counterpart. In modern Chinese and Japanese writing, "冝" is rarely used in everyday language, but it occasionally appears in proper names, decorative scripts, or as a typographic variant in traditional literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+519D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 冝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 冝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x86 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x519D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000519D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u519d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2D3A6E |
| kCNS1986 | E-2457 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2457 |
| kCangjie | XBBM |
| kCantonese | ji4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0292.230 |
| kDefinition | suitable, right, fitting, proper |
| kHanYu | 10303.120 |
| kIBMJapan | FA81 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0292.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10303.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0130.191 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-316E |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2E54 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2430 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2457 |
| kJapanese | ギ むべ よい よろしい よろしく べし |
| kJIS0213 | 1,14,52 |
| kJapaneseKun | YOROSHII |
| kJapaneseOn | GI |
| kJis1 | 1885 |
| kKangXi | 0130.191 |
| kKorean | UY |
| kMandarin | yí |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007334 MJ007334:E0101 MJ007335:E0102 MJ057024:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | H042 H042:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 97* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+8395+14.2.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 14.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |