U+59C9 "姉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+59C9 "姉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is commonly used in both Japanese and Chinese writing systems, though with different frequency and nuance. In Japanese, it primarily means "older sister" and is a standard kanji for that concept, often appearing in words like "ane" (姉, older sister) or "shimai" (姉妹, sisters). In traditional Chinese, the character is less common today but historically carried a similar meaning of an elder sister or, in some contexts, a term of respect for women. The character is composed of the radical "女" (woman) on the left and the phonetic component "市" (city) on the right, reflecting its logographic formation. Overall, U+59C9 represents a familial and social term for an older female sibling.

General Properties

Code Point	U+59C9
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	姉
HTML Hex Encoding	姉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA7 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x59C9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000059C9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u59c9

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	333963
kCNS1986	E-283F
kCNS1992	3-283F
kCangjie	VJB
kCantonese	zi2
kCihaiT	380.305
kCowles	4669
kDaeJaweon	0523.210
kDefinition	elder sister
kEACC	333963
kFennIndex	585.04
kFourCornerCode	4042.7
kGSR	0554c
kHangul	자:0N
kHanYu	21029.160
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0523.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21029.160
kIRGKangXi	0258.140
kIRG_GSource	GE-3560
kIRG_HSource	H-FBA6
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B50
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E6AC
kIRG_KSource	K0-6D2B
kIRG_TSource	T3-283F
kIRG_VSource	V0-3474
kJapanese	シ あね ねえさん
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	ANE
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	2748
kKangXi	0258.140
kKorean	CA
kMandarin	zǐ
kMatthews	6948
kMeyerWempe	3533
kMojiJoho	MJ009632
kMorohashi	06165
kNelson	1207
kPhonetic	138
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2206+38.3.5 V+13452+38.3.4
kRSUnicode	38.5
kSemanticVariant	U+59CA<kFenn
kSMSZD2003Index	153.12
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	HJKP
kVietnamese	chị
kXerox	322:173