U+597B "奻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+597B "奻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character composed of two instances of the radical for "woman" (女) placed side by side, and its traditional meaning conveys the notion of a quarrel or dispute between women, often interpreted as contentiousness or argument. Though historically attested in classical Chinese texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is defined as a "dispute" or "to wrangle," this character is seldom used in modern Standard Chinese, having largely been supplanted by other terms for conflict. Its depiction of two women facing each other has occasionally been subject to outdated and sexist interpretations, but its core lexicographic function remains tied to the idea of interpersonal discord. As a glyph, it showcases the CJK block's capacity for semantic composition through reduplication of basic radicals.

General Properties

Code Point U+597B
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 奻
HTML Hex Encoding 奻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA5 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x597B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000597B
C/C++/Java Escape \u597b

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 C9CF
kCCCII 217963
kCNS1986 2-222F
kCNS1992 2-222F
kCangjie VV
kCantonese nyun4
kDaeJaweon 0518.090
kFanqie 奴還 女患
kFourCornerCode 4444.4
kGB5 3134
kGSR 0189a
kHanYu 21029.030
kHanyuPinyin 21029.030:nuán
kIRGDaeJaweon 0518.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21029.030
kIRGKangXi 0255.080
kIRG_GSource G5-3F42
kIRG_HSource HB2-C9CF
kIRG_JSource J1-3926
kIRG_KSource K2-2B64
kIRG_TSource T2-222F
kJapanese ダン ナン
kJapaneseKun IIARASOU
kJapaneseOn DAN NAN
kJis1 2506
kKangXi 0255.080
kMandarin nuán
kMojiJoho MJ009551
kMorohashi 06050
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21388+38.3.3
kRSUnicode 38.3
kSBGY 128.42 405.54
kTotalStrokes 6
kUnihanCore2020 HMT