U+59A9 "妩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+59A9 "妩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally written as 嫵 in more complex form, and it primarily means to flatter or to charm, often conveying a sense of enchanting or seductive beauty, especially in describing a woman's graceful allure. This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts, where it is used in poetic or descriptive language to denote a captivating elegance, and it is composed of the radical for woman (女) combined with a phonetic component that suggests its pronunciation, which is typically "wǔ" in Mandarin. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block ensures compatibility across East Asian writing systems, allowing it to be recognized and rendered in digital contexts for languages such as Chinese and Japanese, where it may appear in literature or names with nuanced connotations of admiration or coquettishness.

General Properties

Code Point U+59A9
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 妩
HTML Hex Encoding 妩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA6 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x59A9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000059A9
C/C++/Java Escape \u59a9

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

kCCCII 273A45
kCangjie VMKU
kCantonese mou5
kDefinition charming, enchanting
kEACC 273A45
kFourCornerCode 4141
kGB0 6992
kHanYu 21029.120
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21029.120
kIRGKangXi 0257.101
kIRG_GSource G0-657C
kTGH 2013:3807
kKangXi 0257.101
kMainlandTelegraph 8301
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 38.4
kSMSZD2003Index 153.14
kTGHZ2013 389.130:wǔ
kTotalStrokes 7
kTraditionalVariant "嫵" U+5AF5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1220.050:wǔ