U+589E "增" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+589E "增" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to increase," "to add," or "to enhance," and it appears in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese scripts as well as in Japanese Kanji and Korean Hanja. Commonly used in everyday language, it forms part of words such as "增加" (zēngjiā, to increase) and "增值" (zēngzhí, to appreciate or add value). The character is composed of the radical "土" (earth) on the left, suggesting a solid foundation, and the phonetic component "曾" (zēng) on the right, which also carries the meaning of "once" or "formerly" but here contributes to the overall sound and sense of accumulation or augmentation. As a fundamental unit in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, it represents a core concept of growth and expansion across multiple East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+589E
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 增
HTML Hex Encoding 增
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA2 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x589E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000589E
C/C++/Java Escape \u589e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive BC57
kCCCII 21385E
kCNS1986 1-6C41
kCNS1992 1-6C41
kCangjie GCWA
kCantonese zang1
kCihaiT 328.601
kCowles 4490
kDaeJaweon 0477.100
kDefinition increase, add to, augment
kEACC 21385E
kFanqie 作滕 子鄧
kFenn 832C
kFennIndex 550.06
kFourCornerCode 4816.6
kGB0 5286
kGB1 5286
kGradeLevel 3
kGSR 0884c
kHangul 증:0E
kHanYu 10489.060
kHanyuPinlu zēng(601)
kHanyuPinyin 10489.060:zēng,zèng,céng
kHKGlyph 0801
kIBMJapan FA9D
kIICore AGTHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0477.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10489.060
kIRGKangXi 0238.250
kIRG_GSource G0-5476
kIRG_HSource HB1-BC57
kIRG_JSource J3-2F5D
kIRG_KPSource KP0-EAC4
kIRG_KSource K0-7172
kIRG_TSource T1-6C41
kIRG_VSource V1-5129
kJapanese ゾウ ソウ ふえる ふやす ます
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010:U+5897
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:3204
kJIS0213 1,15,61
kJapaneseKun MASU FUERU FUYASU
kJapaneseOn ZOU SOU
kKangXi 0238.250
kKorean CUNG
kLau 1342
kMainlandTelegraph 1073
kMandarin zēng
kMatthews 6763
kMeyerWempe 3272
kMojiJoho MJ009289 MJ009289:E0101 MJ009290:E0102
kMorohashi 05454 05454:E0101
kNelson 1137 1138
kPhonetic 68
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8423+32.3.12
kRSUnicode 32.12
kSBGY 201.18 434.16
kSMSZD2003Index 139.19
kSMSZD2003Readings zēng粵zang1
kTaiwanTelegraph 1073
kTang *tzəng
kTGHZ2013 461.050:zēng
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese tăng
kXerox 244:170
kXHC1983 1446.040:zēng