U+59B8 "妸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
妸
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
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 | ả |
| kXerox | 310:372 |