U+596D "奭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+596D "奭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that historically denotes a state of grandeur, abundance, or vivid redness, often associated with the color red or the appearance of being expansive and imposing. It has been used in classical Chinese literature and personal names, sometimes appearing in ancient texts to describe a powerful or flourishing quality. Its structure combines the radical for "big" with phonetic and semantic components, and it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, making it a specialized character primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics or traditional calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point U+596D
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 奭
HTML Hex Encoding 奭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA5 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x596D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000596D
C/C++/Java Escape \u596d

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 BC5D
kCCCII 217955
kCNS1986 1-6C47
kCNS1992 1-6C47
kCangjie KMAA
kCantonese sik1
kCihaiT 375.503
kDaeJaweon 0515.270
kDefinition red; anger; ire; surname
kEACC 217955
kFanqie 施隻
kFourCornerCode 4003.6
kGB3 2128
kGB8 9062
kGSR 0913a
kHangul 석:0N
kHanYu 10549.030
kHanyuPinyin 10549.030:shì
kIICore AGTKP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0515.270
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10549.030
kIRGKangXi 0254.020
kIRG_GSource G3-353C
kIRG_HSource HB1-BC5D
kIRG_JSource J13-2F6A
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E2A2
kIRG_KSource K0-602B
kIRG_TSource T1-6C47
kJapanese セキ カク シャク キャク
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:5858
kJIS0213 1,15,74
kJapaneseKun SAKAN IKARUSAMA
kJapaneseOn SEKI SHAKU KAKU KYAKU
kJis1 2494
kKangXi 0254.020
kKorean SEK HAK
kMainlandTelegraph 1163
kMandarin shì
kMatthews 5827
kMeyerWempe 2705e
kMojiJoho MJ009536
kMorohashi 06002
kPhonetic 1039 1190
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+14448+37.3.12
kRSUnicode 37.12
kSMSZD2003Index 151.04
kSMSZD2003Readings shì粵sik1
kTaiwanTelegraph 1163
kTGHZ2013 338.160:shì
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 GHKMPT
kXerox 302:261
kXHC1983 1049.050:shì