U+597C "奼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

奼

U+597C "奼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that in modern use is often a variant of the more common character "奼" or "姹", meaning a beautiful young woman, a fairy maiden, or a dazzling, enchanting appearance, and it is also historically used in Taoist contexts to refer to alchemical substances or virgin maidens. Its structure combines the radical for "woman" (女) on the left with a phonetic component on the right, and it is traditionally pronounced as "chà" in Mandarin. This character appears in classical literature and compound words like "奼女" (chànǚ), which can refer to a beautiful girl or, in Taoist alchemy, to a mysterious elixir ingredient.

General Properties

Code Point	U+597C
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	奼
HTML Hex Encoding	奼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA5 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x597C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000597C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u597c

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	C9CD
kCCCII	217965
kCNS1986	2-222D
kCNS1992	2-222D
kCangjie	VHP
kCantonese	caa3
kCihaiT	378.102
kDaeJaweon	0518.100
kDefinition	beautiful, colorful; girl
kEACC	217965
kFanqie	丑下當故陟駕
kFourCornerCode	4241.1
kGB3	2792
kHanYu	21026.030
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	0518.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21026.030
kIRGKangXi	0255.090
kIRG_GSource	G3-3B7C
kIRG_HSource	HB2-C9CD
kIRG_JSource	J14-254A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3CDA
kIRG_KSource	K2-2B65
kIRG_TSource	T2-222D
kJapanese	タトツ
kJIS0213	2,05,42
kJapaneseKun	OTOME HOKORU
kJapaneseOn	TA TO TSU
kJis1	2507
kKangXi	0255.090
kMandarin	chà
kMojiJoho	MJ009552
kMorohashi	06051
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17483+38.3.3
kRSUnicode	38.3
kSBGY	310.10 368.13 422.16
kSimplifiedVariant	"姹" U+59F9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	0115.031:chà