U+5999 "妙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
妙
U+5999 "妙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of wonderful, exquisite, clever, or subtle. It is composed of the radical for woman, which appears on the left side, and the phonetic component meaning small or young on the right. This character is widely used in compound words across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, such as in the terms for wonderful, mystery, or ingenious, and it carries a positive connotation associated with refined beauty or skilled subtlety in traditional and modern contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5999 |
| 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 | 妙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 妙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA6 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5999 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005999 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5999 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A7AE |
| kCCCII | 213954 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-496E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-496E |
| kCangjie | VFH |
| kCantonese | miu6 |
| kCihaiT | 380.102 |
| kCowles | 2708 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0521.040 |
| kDefinition | mysterious, subtle; exquisite |
| kEACC | 213954 |
| kFanqie | 彌笑 |
| kFenn | 122D |
| kFennIndex | 340.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4942.0 |
| kGB0 | 3578 |
| kGB1 | 3578 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1158b |
| kHangul | 묘:0E |
| kHanYu | 21030.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | miào(81) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21030.100:miào,miǎo |
| kHKGlyph | 0883 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0521.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21030.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0256.240 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-436E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A7AE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C2F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DBC6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5958 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-496E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5166 |
| kJapanese | ミョウ ビョウ たえ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:919 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAKAI TAE |
| kJapaneseOn | MYOU BYOU |
| kJis0 | 4415 |
| kKangXi | 0256.240 |
| kKorean | MYO |
| kLau | 2160 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1181 |
| kMandarin | miào |
| kMatthews | 4474 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1839 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009584 |
| kMorohashi | 06090 |
| kNelson | 1199 |
| kPhonetic | 1220 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3771+38.3.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.4 |
| kSBGY | 414.26 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7385<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 153.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | miào粵miu6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1181 |
| kTang | *miɛ̀u |
| kTGHZ2013 | 253.030:miào |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | diệu |
| kXerox | 246:161 |
| kXHC1983 | 0788.140:miào |