U+59CF "姏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
姏
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
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 |