U+59A8 "妨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

妨

U+59A8 "妨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of hinder, obstruct, or harm. It is composed of the radical 女 (woman) on the left, suggesting a historical or etymological connection to female roles in certain contexts, and the phonetic component 方 (fang) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation in Mandarin as "fáng." Commonly appearing in words like 妨碍 (hinder) and 妨害 (harm), this character is used to describe acts or conditions that impede progress, cause damage, or create obstacles in both formal and everyday language. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, it ensures consistent digital representation across diverse East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+59A8
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	妨
HTML Hex Encoding	妨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA6 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x59A8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000059A8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u59a8

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	A7AB
kCCCII	21394C
kCNS1986	1-496B
kCNS1992	1-496B
kCangjie	VYHS
kCantonese	fong4
kCihaiT	380.307
kCowles	784
kDaeJaweon	0522.040
kDefinition	interfere with, impede, obstruct
kEACC	21394C
kFanqie	敷方敷亮
kFenn	261D
kFennIndex	131.03
kFourCornerCode	4042.7
kGB0	2333
kGB1	2333
kGradeLevel	5
kGSR	0740q
kHangul	방:0E
kHanYu	21033.040
kHanyuPinlu	fáng(22) fāng(13)
kHanyuPinyin	21033.040:fáng
kHKGlyph	0875
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0522.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21033.040
kIRGKangXi	0257.100
kIRG_GSource	G0-3741
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A7AB
kIRG_JSource	J0-4B38
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DDB2
kIRG_KSource	K0-5B2A
kIRG_TSource	T1-496B
kJapanese	ボウホウさまたげる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:922
kJapaneseKun	SAMATAGERU
kJapaneseOn	BOU
kJis0	4324
kKangXi	0257.100
kKarlgren	25
kKorean	PANG
kLau	721
kMainlandTelegraph	1186
kMandarin	fáng
kMatthews	1804
kMeyerWempe	529
kMojiJoho	MJ009602
kMorohashi	06111
kNelson	1196
kPhonetic	373
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3686+38.3.4 C+3686+70.4.3
kRSUnicode	38.4
kSBGY	178.05 426.27
kSMSZD2003Index	153.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	fáng粵fong4
kTaiwanTelegraph	1186
kTang	piɑng piɑ̀ng
kTGHZ2013	093.100:fáng
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	250:305
kXHC1983	0307.060:fāng 0309.010:fáng