U+59E2 "姢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+59E2 "姢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in classical and some modern contexts of East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This character is typically read as "juàn" in Mandarin, and its fundamental meaning revolves around the concept of "good" or "excellent," often referring to a woman of grace or beauty. It belongs to the radical "女" (woman), which indicates its semantic association with feminine qualities, and its structure combines this radical with the phonetic component "肙" to suggest both sound and sense. In Japanese, it can appear in the name "Hime" or be used in classical literature, while its usage in modern standard Chinese is relatively rare, having been largely supplanted by more common characters like "娟" (also meaning graceful or beautiful). Overall, U+59E2 represents a specific, elegant, and somewhat antiquated ideograph within the vast CJK character repertoire.

General Properties

Code Point U+59E2
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 姢
HTML Hex Encoding 姢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA7 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x59E2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000059E2
C/C++/Java Escape \u59e2

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

kCCCII 2D397A
kCNS1986 E-2C2C
kCNS1992 3-2C2C
kCangjie VIB
kCantonese gyun1
kDefinition beautiful, graceful
kHangul 연:N
kHanYu 21049.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21049.030
kIRGKangXi 0260.050
kIRG_GSource GE-3563
kIRG_JSource JMJ-009659
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3D34
kIRG_KSource K2-2C33
kIRG_TSource T3-2C2C
kJapanese エン ケン
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun ADEYAKA SHINAYAKA KOBIRU UTSUKUSHII
kJapaneseOn KEN EN
kKangXi 0260.050
kKorean YEN
kMandarin juān
kMojiJoho MJ009659
kMorohashi 06213
kRSUnicode 38.6
kSBGY 141.21
kTotalStrokes 9