U+59D0 "姐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
姐
U+59D0 "姐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "elder sister" or "older female sibling," and it is commonly used in both Chinese and Japanese writing systems. In Japanese, it can specifically refer to "one's elder sister" or "a young lady," and it appears in words like "姉妹" (shimai), meaning sisters. The character is composed of the radical 女 (woman) on the left, indicating its feminine association, and the phonetic component 且 (qiě) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation in Chinese as "jiě". This ideograph plays a key role in expressing familial relationships and respectful address for older females in East Asian cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+59D0 |
| 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 | 姐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 姐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA7 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x59D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000059D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u59d0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A96A |
| kCCCII | 21395E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C6C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C6C |
| kCangjie | VBM |
| kCantonese | ze2 |
| kCihaiT | 381.303 |
| kCowles | 4508 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0524.040 |
| kDefinition | elder sister, young lady |
| kEACC | 21395E |
| kFanqie | 兹野 |
| kFenn | 623A |
| kFennIndex | 55.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4741.0 |
| kGB0 | 2967 |
| kGB1 | 2967 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kHangul | 저:0N |
| kHanYu | 21036.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jie(237) jiě(180) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21036.080:jiě,jù,xù,zū |
| kHKGlyph | 0891 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0524.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21036.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0258.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D63 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A96A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3039 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E7A7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6E3B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C6C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5172 |
| kJapanese | ソ シャ シ ショ セ あね あねご |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1326 |
| kJapaneseKun | ANE ANEGO |
| kJapaneseOn | SO SHA |
| kJis0 | 1625 |
| kKangXi | 0258.270 |
| kKorean | CE |
| kLau | 1366 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1195 |
| kMandarin | jiě |
| kMatthews | 766 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3304 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009640 |
| kMorohashi | 06172 |
| kNelson | 1202 |
| kPhonetic | 97 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1149+38.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.5 |
| kSBGY | 309.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 154.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiě粵ze2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1195 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 174.030:jiě |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thư |
| kXerox | 242:344 |
| kXHC1983 | 0582.010:jiě |