U+59BB "妻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
妻
U+59BB "妻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of a wife or spouse, commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its written form consists of radical components that symbolize a woman (女) combined with other elements, reflecting traditional cultural associations with marriage and family roles. In historical and modern contexts, this character appears in terms for lawful wife, matrimony, and related familial relationships, and its usage can carry nuances of respect or formality depending on the language and setting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+59BB |
| 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 | 妻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 妻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA6 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x59BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000059BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u59bb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A964 |
| kCCCII | 213959 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C66 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C66 |
| kCangjie | JLV |
| kCantonese | cai1 |
| kCihaiT | 380.601 |
| kCowles | 4697 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0522.250 |
| kDefinition | wife |
| kEACC | 213959 |
| kFanqie | 七稽 七計 |
| kFenn | 668C |
| kFennIndex | 37.12 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5040.4 |
| kGB0 | 3862 |
| kGB1 | 3862 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0592a |
| kHangul | 처:0E |
| kHanYu | 21036.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qī(69) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21036.020:qī,qì |
| kHKGlyph | 0887 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0522.250 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21036.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0257.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-465E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A964 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A4A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-ECF4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7423 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C66 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-516D |
| kJapanese | サイ セイ シ つま めあわせる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1056 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUMA MEAWASERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SAI |
| kJis0 | 2642 |
| kKangXi | 0257.300 |
| kKorean | CHE |
| kLau | 198 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1189 |
| kMandarin | qī |
| kMatthews | 555 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3255 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009618 |
| kMorohashi | 06140 |
| kNelson | 1206 |
| kPhonetic | 55 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2106+38.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.5 |
| kSBGY | 087.24 372.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 153.22 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qī粵cai1 qì粵cai3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1189 |
| kTang | *tsei |
| kTGHZ2013 | 290.030:qī |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thê |
| kXerox | 245:321 |
| kXHC1983 | 0894.040:qī 0902.110:qì |