U+59F8 "姸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+59F8 "姸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for woman, 女, combined with a phonetic component, and it traditionally conveys the meanings of beautiful, lovely, or graceful, particularly in reference to a woman's appearance. In classical Chinese literature, it often appears in descriptions of elegance and feminine charm, though its usage in modern Mandarin is relatively rare compared to more common synonyms. The character is included in the CJK Unified Ideographs block to represent a standardized form used across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean written languages, where it may carry slightly different nuances, such as in Japanese where it can also imply skill or cleverness.

General Properties

Code Point	U+59F8
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	姸
HTML Hex Encoding	姸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA7 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x59F8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000059F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u59f8

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

kCNS1986	E-2C2B
kCNS1992	3-2C2B
kCangjie	VMJJ
kCantonese	jin4
kCihaiT	384.402
kDefinition	beautiful
kEACC	217A44
kFanqie	五堅
kHangul	연:0N
kHanYu	21042.030
kIICore	AKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21042.030
kIRGKangXi	0261.130
kIRG_GSource	GE-3567
kIRG_HSource	H-9D55
kIRG_JSource	J3A-7E7A
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F8E0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6641
kIRG_MSource	MA-9D55
kIRG_TSource	T3-2C2B
kJapanese	ケン ゲン うつくしい
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	1,94,90
kJapaneseKun	UTSUKUSHII
kJapaneseOn	KEN GEN
kKangXi	0261.130
kKarlgren	379
kKorean	YEN
kMandarin	yán
kMojiJoho	MJ009683
kMorohashi	06247
kNelson	1210
kPhonetic	617
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19312+38.3.6
kRSUnicode	38.6
kSMSZD2003Index	156.10
kTaiwanTelegraph	1177
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	HJKP
kXHC1983	1325.051:yán