U+59AA "妪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+59AA "妪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning an elderly woman or a female caregiver, often used in classical texts to refer to an old lady or a motherly figure. This ideograph belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified block, and its modern usage in Mandarin Chinese includes contexts like narratives or historical references, though it is less common in everyday speech. The character is composed of the radical for "woman" (女) on the left, indicating its gendered meaning, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which is pronounced as "yù" in Mandarin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+59AA
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	妪
HTML Hex Encoding	妪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA6 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x59AA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000059AA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u59aa

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	273A3B
kCangjie	VSK
kCantonese	jyu3
kDefinition	old woman, hag
kEACC	273A3B
kFourCornerCode	4141
kGB0	6993
kHanYu	21030.020
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21030.020
kIRGKangXi	0257.101
kIRG_GSource	G0-657D
kTGH	2013:3808
kKangXi	0257.101
kMainlandTelegraph	1277
kMandarin	yù
kRSUnicode	38.4
kSMSZD2003Index	153.15
kTGHZ2013	448.170:yù
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"嫗" U+5AD7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1418.130:yù