U+59CF "姏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+59CF "姏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that appears in some historical and classical texts. It is composed of the radical "女" (meaning woman or female) and the phonetic component "甘" (meaning sweet), and its traditional pronunciation is approximated as "gān" in Mandarin. The character's primary meaning is associated with an elderly woman or a female elder, often carrying a connotation of respect, though it is not commonly found in modern standard Chinese and is instead encountered in specialized dictionaries or works of classical literature.

General Properties

Code Point U+59CF
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 姏
HTML Hex Encoding 姏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA7 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x59CF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000059CF
C/C++/Java Escape \u59cf

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 CC46
kCCCII 217A28
kCNS1986 2-2627
kCNS1992 2-2627
kCangjie VTM
kCantonese maan4
kCihaiT 383.204
kDaeJaweon 0524.030
kEACC 217A28
kFanqie 武酣
kFourCornerCode 4447.0
kGB3 2819
kHanYu 21035.030
kHanyuPinyin 21035.030:mán
kIRGDaeJaweon 0524.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21035.030
kIRGKangXi 0258.260
kIRG_GSource G3-3C33
kIRG_HSource HB2-CC46
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009639
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3CFD
kIRG_TSource T2-2627
kJapanese バン マン カン コン
kJapaneseKun BABA
kJapaneseOn BAN MAN KAN KON
kKangXi 0258.260
kMandarin mán
kMojiJoho MJ009639
kMorohashi 06171
kPhonetic 650
kRSUnicode 38.5
kSBGY 225.01
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 HMT