U+59E3 "姣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+59E3 "姣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for woman (女, nǚ) on the left and the component for jiao (交) on the right, and it primarily carries meanings related to beauty, loveliness, or elegance, often used to describe a woman's charming or delicate appearance. In classical Chinese texts, it can also connote cunning or deceit in certain contexts, reflecting a dual semantic range. This character is part of the East Asian CJK unified ideographs block and is used in both modern and historical written Chinese, as well as in Japanese, where it appears in the Jōyō kanji list as コウ (kō) with meanings centered on beauty and adroitness.

General Properties

Code Point U+59E3
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 姣
HTML Hex Encoding 姣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA7 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x59E3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000059E3
C/C++/Java Escape \u59e3

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 ABBB
kCCCII 213967
kCNS1986 1-505D
kCNS1992 1-505D
kCangjie VYCK
kCantonese gaau2
kCihaiT 384.104
kCowles 961 1505
kDaeJaweon 0526.060
kDefinition beautiful, handsome, pretty
kEACC 213967
kFanqie 胡茅 古巧
kFourCornerCode 4044.8
kGB0 7015
kGB1 7015
kGSR 1166f
kHangul 교:1N
kHanYu 21047.050
kHanyuPinyin 21047.050:jiāo,jiǎo,xiáo
kHKGlyph 0904
kIICore AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 0526.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21047.050
kIRGKangXi 0260.060
kIRG_GSource G0-662F
kIRG_HSource HB1-ABBB
kIRG_JSource J14-2551
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3D21
kIRG_KSource K1-5A35
kIRG_TSource T1-505D
kJapanese コウ キョウ ギョウ
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:4386
kJIS0213 2,05,49
kJapaneseKun MIMEYOI UTSUKUSHII ISAGIYOI
kJapaneseOn KOU KEU GEU
kJis1 2535
kKangXi 0260.060
kKarlgren 357
kKorean KYO
kLau 822 1111
kMainlandTelegraph 1207
kMandarin jiāo
kMatthews 704
kMeyerWempe 651 996b
kMojiJoho MJ009660 MJ009660:E0101 MJ009661:E0102
kMorohashi 06214 06214:E0101
kPhonetic 553
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+14452+38.3.6
kRSUnicode 38.6
kSBGY 151.54 300.16
kSemanticVariant U+36A3<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index 155.13
kSMSZD2003Readings jiāo,jiǎo粵gaau2 xiáo粵haau4
kTaiwanTelegraph 1207
kTGHZ2013 168.130:jiāo
kTotalStrokes 9
kUnihanCore2020 GHMT
kXerox 267:270
kXHC1983 0566.020:jiāo