U+59BC "妼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+59BC "妼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) used in historical and literary contexts, primarily representing a female given name or a term for a woman's personal name in classical texts. It is composed of the radical 女 (nǚ, meaning "woman" or "female") on the left and the phonetic component 必 (bì) on the right. While not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin, it appears in ancient Chinese literature and historical records, carrying connotations of grace or propriety associated with a woman’s name. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, encompassing characters shared across these languages with occasional variant readings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+59BC
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	妼
HTML Hex Encoding	妼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA6 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x59BC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000059BC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u59bc

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

kBigFive	CC4C
kCCCII	217A3C
kCNS1986	2-262D
kCNS1992	2-262D
kCangjie	VPH
kCantonese	bat6
kDaeJaweon	0523.010
kFanqie	毗必
kFourCornerCode	4340.0
kGB3	2834
kHanYu	21040.110
kHanyuPinyin	21040.110:bì
kIRGDaeJaweon	0523.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21040.110
kIRGKangXi	0257.330
kIRG_GSource	G3-3C42
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CC4C
kIRG_JSource	J14-254D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3D16
kIRG_KSource	K2-2C23
kIRG_TSource	T2-262D
kJapanese	ヒ ビ ヒツ ビチ
kJIS0213	2,05,45
kJapaneseOn	HI BI HITSU BICHI
kJis1	2524
kKangXi	0257.330
kMandarin	bì
kMojiJoho	MJ009619
kMorohashi	06141
kPhonetic	1059*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17486+38.3.5
kRSUnicode	38.5
kSBGY	471.50
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	HMT