U+59C6 "姆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

姆

U+59C6 "姆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the primary meaning of a governess, nurse, or female caretaker, often used in compounds such as "保姆" (bǎomǔ, meaning nanny or housekeeper) and "姆指" (mǔzhǐ, a less common variant for thumb). It is composed of the radical 女 (female) on the left, indicating its association with women, and the phonetic component 母 (mǔ, mother) on the right, which also contributes the reading. In East Asian contexts, this character appears in both traditional and simplified Chinese scripts as well as in Japanese kanji, where it maintains similar meanings related to maternal care or female service roles. The glyph structure reflects a harmonious combination of semantic and phonetic elements, typical of many CJK ideographs, making it a functional part of the written language in several Sinosphere cultures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+59C6
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	姆
HTML Hex Encoding	姆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA7 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x59C6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000059C6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u59c6

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	A969
kCCCII	21395D
kCNS1986	1-4C6B
kCNS1992	1-4C6B
kCangjie	VWYI
kCantonese	mou5
kCihaiT	380.605
kCowles	2725
kDaeJaweon	0523.150
kDefinition	child's governess; matron
kEACC	21395D
kFanqie	莫候
kFenn	571G
kFennIndex	290.02 290.03 350.07
kFourCornerCode	4745.0
kGB0	3623
kGB1	3623
kGSR	0947f
kHangul	모:0N
kHanYu	21041.130
kHanyuPinlu	mǔ(16)
kHanyuPinyin	21041.130:mǔ
kHKGlyph	0896
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0523.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21041.130
kIRGKangXi	0258.090
kIRG_GSource	G0-4437
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A969
kIRG_JSource	J0-5528
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DBA3
kIRG_KSource	K0-5935
kIRG_TSource	T1-4C6B
kJapanese	ボボウモ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:1330
kJapaneseKun	KASHIZUKI UBA
kJapaneseOn	BO MO
kJis0	5308
kKangXi	0258.090
kKorean	MO
kMainlandTelegraph	1191
kMandarin	mǔ
kMatthews	4583
kMeyerWempe	1854
kMojiJoho	MJ009629
kMorohashi	06159
kNelson	1200
kPhonetic	916
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4567+38.3.5 C+4567+80.5.3
kRSUnicode	38.5
kSBGY	438.14
kSemanticVariant	U+59E5<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	154.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	mǔ粵mou5
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+4F6C<kFenn U+59E5<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph	1191
kTGHZ2013	258.090:mǔ
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	254:112
kXHC1983	0806.050:mǔ