U+59CB "始" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

始

U+59CB "始" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that signifies the concept of beginning, start, or origin, commonly used in compounds such as "开始" meaning to start or "始终" meaning from beginning to end. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it represents a fundamental semantic element in East Asian scripts, where its visual structure comprises the radical for woman on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its historical evolution. This character is widely employed in formal and informal contexts across multiple languages to denote the initiation of an action, event, or condition, underscoring its importance in both written communication and cultural expressions of time and sequence.

General Properties

Code Point	U+59CB
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	始
HTML Hex Encoding	始
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA7 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x59CB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000059CB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u59cb

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	A96C
kCCCII	213965
kCNS1986	1-4C6E
kCNS1992	1-4C6E
kCangjie	VIR
kCantonese	ci2
kCihaiT	381.102
kCowles	523
kDaeJaweon	0523.220
kDefinition	begin, start; then, only then
kEACC	213965
kFanqie	詩止
kFenn	718D
kFennIndex	453.04
kFourCornerCode	4346.0
kGB0	4228
kGB1	4228
kGradeLevel	3
kGSR	0976e'
kHangul	시:0E
kHanYu	21041.120
kHanyuPinlu	shǐ(606)
kHanyuPinyin	21041.120:shǐ
kHKGlyph	0897
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0523.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21041.120
kIRGKangXi	0258.160
kIRG_GSource	G0-4A3C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A96C
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B4F
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E4FC
kIRG_KSource	K0-6337
kIRG_TSource	T1-4C6E
kIRG_VSource	V1-5171
kJapanese	シはじめるはじまるはじめはじめて
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:1329
kJapaneseKun	HAJIMERU HAJIME HAJIMARU
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	2747
kKangXi	0258.160
kKarlgren	184
kKorean	SI
kLau	281
kMainlandTelegraph	1193
kMandarin	shǐ
kMatthews	5772
kMeyerWempe	256
kMojiJoho	MJ009634
kMorohashi	06166
kNelson	1208
kPhonetic	1373
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2205+38.3.5
kRSUnicode	38.5
kSBGY	253.02
kSMSZD2003Index	154.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	shǐ粵ci2
kTaiwanTelegraph	1193
kTang	*shiə̌
kTGHZ2013	336.040:shǐ
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	thuỷ
kXerox	244:136
kXHC1983	1046.010:shǐ