U+59CA "姊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
姊
U+59CA "姊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents an older sister, specifically an elder female sibling, and is commonly used in formal or traditional contexts, such as in the term "姊妹" meaning sisters. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the radical for "woman" (女) and the phonetic component "𠂔" indicating its pronunciation as "zǐ" in Mandarin. It appears in historical texts and modern usage in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, though in everyday Chinese conversation it is often replaced by the character "姐" for the same meaning. The glyph may vary slightly across different fonts and regional standards but consistently denotes the concept of an older sister.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+59CA |
| 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 | 姊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 姊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA7 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x59CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000059CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u59ca |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A96E |
| kCCCII | 213963 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C70 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C70 |
| kCangjie | VLXH |
| kCantonese | zi2 |
| kCihaiT | 381.101 |
| kCowles | 4668 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0523.200 |
| kDefinition | elder sister |
| kEACC | 213963 |
| kFenn | 250D |
| kFennIndex | 585.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4042.7 |
| kGB0 | 7002 |
| kGB1 | 7002 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0554b |
| kHangul | 자:E |
| kHanYu | 21032.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zǐ(10) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21032.090:zǐ |
| kHKGlyph | 0899 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0523.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21032.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0258.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6622 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A96E |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-393D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3D0B |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2C2A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C70 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5170 |
| kJapanese | シ あね |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:921 |
| kJapaneseKun | ANE HAHA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis1 | 2529 |
| kKangXi | 0258.150 |
| kLau | 1431 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1192 |
| kMandarin | zǐ |
| kMatthews | 6948 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3533 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009633 |
| kMorohashi | 06164 |
| kPhonetic | 138 139 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14449+38.3.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.5 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+59C9<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 154.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zǐ粵zi2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1192 |
| kTang | tzǐ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 492.020:zǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHKMT |
| kVietnamese | chị |
| kXerox | 247:142 |
| kXHC1983 | 1531.030:zǐ |