U+59B8 "妸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+59B8 "妸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it carries the meanings of a woman's name or a term of endearment, often associated with a lively or charming disposition. It is composed of the radical for "woman" (女) on the left and the phonetic component "可" on the right, reflecting its role as a phono-semantic compound in the script. In modern usage, it appears primarily in proper names and classical texts, and it is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard to support digital representation of East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+59B8
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 妸
HTML Hex Encoding 妸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA6 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x59B8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000059B8
C/C++/Java Escape \u59b8

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 217A2C
kCNS1986 E-2840
kCNS1992 3-2840
kCangjie VMNR
kCantonese o2
kCihaiT 383.101
kDaeJaweon 0522.220
kDefinition person
kEACC 217A2C
kFanqie 烏何 烏可
kGB5 3148
kHangul 아:N
kHanYu 21035.050
kHanyuPinyin 21035.050:ē,ě
kIICore CK
kIRGDaeJaweon 0522.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21035.050
kIRGKangXi 0257.270
kIRG_GSource G5-3F50
kIRG_HSource H-92F1
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009615
kIRG_KSource K2-2C21
kIRG_TSource T3-2840
kIRG_VSource V0-3473
kJapanese ア たおやか
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseOn A
kKangXi 0257.270
kMandarin ē
kMojiJoho MJ009615
kMorohashi 06137
kPhonetic 487
kRSUnicode 38.5
kSBGY 161.34 305.07
kTaiwanTelegraph 8270
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 H
kVietnamese
kXerox 310:372