U+59E8 "姨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
姨
U+59E8 "姨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "aunt," specifically referring to the sister of one's mother, or sometimes a younger sister of one's father, as well as a general term of respect for a woman of one's mother's generation. It is composed of the radical for woman (女, nǚ) on the left, indicating its association with female family relations, and the phonetic component 夷 on the right. This character is widely used in Mandarin Chinese and other East Asian languages, appearing in family titles, kinship terms, and honorifics, and it reflects the elaborate system of familial relationships in Sinosphere cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+59E8 |
| 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 | 姨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 姨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA7 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x59E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000059E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u59e8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ABBC |
| kCCCII | 21396C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-505E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-505E |
| kCangjie | VKN |
| kCantonese | ji4 |
| kCihaiT | 384.201 |
| kCowles | 1270 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0526.140 |
| kDefinition | mother/wife's sister; concubine |
| kEACC | 21396C |
| kFanqie | 以脂 |
| kFenn | 251F |
| kFennIndex | 218.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4543.2 |
| kGB0 | 5044 |
| kGB1 | 5044 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0551e |
| kHangul | 이:0N |
| kHanYu | 21043.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yí(55) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21043.120:yí |
| kHKGlyph | 0905 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0526.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21043.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0260.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-524C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ABBC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5529 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FCAB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6C29 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-505E |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3475 |
| kJapanese | イ おば |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1737 |
| kJapaneseKun | OBA |
| kJapaneseOn | I |
| kJis0 | 5309 |
| kKangXi | 0260.150 |
| kKarlgren | 186 |
| kKorean | I |
| kLau | 3418 3419 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1210 |
| kMandarin | yí |
| kMatthews | 2985 |
| kMeyerWempe | 853 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009666 |
| kMorohashi | 06222 |
| kPhonetic | 1542 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4568+38.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.6 |
| kSBGY | 051.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 155.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yí粵ji4 yí粵ji1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1210 |
| kTang | i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 432.030:yí |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | dì |
| kXerox | 252:367 |
| kXHC1983 | 1360.110:yí |