U+59A3 "妣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

妣

U+59A3 "妣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that primarily means "deceased mother" or "ancestral mother," often used in contexts of mourning and genealogy. It is composed of the radical "女" (woman, female) on the left, indicating its semantic connection to femininity, and the phonetic component "比" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation (bǐ in Mandarin, hi in some Japanese readings). In classical texts and modern usage, such as in Chinese funeral rites or family records, "妣" contrasts with "考" (deceased father), together representing one's parents in ancestral worship. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes historically shared logographic writing systems from China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

General Properties

Code Point	U+59A3
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	妣
HTML Hex Encoding	妣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA6 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x59A3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000059A3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u59a3

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	A7AD
kCCCII	213950
kCNS1986	1-496D
kCNS1992	1-496D
kCangjie	VPP
kCantonese	bei2
kCihaiT	380.302
kDaeJaweon	0521.160
kDefinition	one's deceased mother
kEACC	213950
kFanqie	卑履
kFenn	317I
kFennIndex	399.05
kFourCornerCode	4141.0
kGB0	6994
kGB1	6994
kGSR	0566n
kHangul	비:1N
kHanYu	21030.080
kHanyuPinyin	21030.080:bǐ
kHKGlyph	0877
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0521.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21030.080
kIRGKangXi	0257.030
kIRG_GSource	G0-657E
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A7AD
kIRG_JSource	J0-5526
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3CE8
kIRG_KSource	K1-6270
kIRG_TSource	T1-496D
kJapanese	ヒはは
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:3809
kJapaneseKun	NAKIHAHA
kJapaneseOn	HI
kJis0	5306
kKangXi	0257.030
kKorean	PI
kMainlandTelegraph	1183
kMandarin	bǐ
kMatthews	5082
kMeyerWempe	2312a
kMojiJoho	MJ009596
kMorohashi	06103
kNelson	1193
kPhonetic	1030
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4565+38.3.4 C+4565+81.4.3
kRSUnicode	38.4
kSBGY	248.07
kSMSZD2003Index	153.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	bǐ粵bei2
kTaiwanTelegraph	1183
kTGHZ2013	017.170:bǐ
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	274:063
kXHC1983	0058.020:bǐ