U+59AE "妮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
妮
U+59AE "妮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the concept of a maid or a young girl, often used in names and terms of endearment. Pronounced "nī" in Mandarin, it combines the radical for woman (女) on the left with the phonetic component "尼" on the right, linking it to feminine contexts and sometimes a gentle or affectionate tone. In modern usage, it appears in common words like "妮子" (nīzi) for a girl or daughter, and is frequently incorporated into female given names to convey charm or youthfulness. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, reflecting its shared use across these East Asian writing systems with similar meanings and pronunciations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+59AE |
| 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 | 妮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 妮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA6 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x59AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000059AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u59ae |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A967 |
| kCCCII | 21395A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C69 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C69 |
| kCangjie | VSP |
| kCantonese | nei4 |
| kCihaiT | 383.202 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0522.100 |
| kDefinition | maid, servant girl; cute girl |
| kEACC | 21395A |
| kFenn | 725H |
| kFennIndex | 359.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4741.1 |
| kGB0 | 3661 |
| kGB1 | 3661 |
| kHangul | 니:N |
| kHanYu | 21041.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21041.020:nī,ní |
| kHKGlyph | 0889 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0522.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21041.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0257.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-445D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A967 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-254C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3CF9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2B77 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C69 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5169 |
| kJapanese | ジ ニ はしため |
| kKoreanName | 2018 |
| kTGH | 2013:1328 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,05,44 |
| kJapaneseKun | HASHITAME YAHARAKAKUMATSUHARU |
| kJapaneseOn | JI NI |
| kJis1 | 2518 |
| kKangXi | 0257.140 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1200 |
| kMandarin | nī |
| kMatthews | 4657 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1979b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009605 |
| kMorohashi | 06123 |
| kPhonetic | 946 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17485+38.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 153.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | nī粵nei4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1200 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 264.080:nī |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | ni |
| kXerox | 256:323 |
| kXHC1983 | 0826.040:nī |