U+59FA "姺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
姺
U+59FA "姺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for "woman" on the left and a component on the right that is associated with the sound or meaning of "first" or "before." This character has multiple meanings in classical and modern Chinese contexts, including as a surname and as an element in historical texts, where it can refer to a type of female spirit or a term related to ancient shamanistic practices. It appears in the Kangxi Dictionary, indicating its long standing presence in the Chinese written tradition, though it is not commonly used in everyday contemporary language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+59FA |
| 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 | 姺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 姺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA7 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x59FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000059FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u59fa |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CE68 |
| kCCCII | 217A5F |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2969 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2969 |
| kCangjie | VHGU |
| kCantonese | san1 |
| kCihaiT | 384.403 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0527.180 |
| kDefinition | name of an ancient state |
| kEACC | 217A5F |
| kFanqie | 所臻 蘇典 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4441.1 |
| kGB3 | 2847 |
| kGSR | 0478i |
| kHangul | 신:1N |
| kHanYu | 21044.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21044.140:shēn,xiān |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0527.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21044.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0261.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3C4F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CE68 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-009685 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3D28 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6570 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2969 |
| kJapanese | シン セイ サイ ソン セン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseOn | SHIN SEI SAI SON SEN |
| kKangXi | 0261.150 |
| kKorean | SIN |
| kMandarin | shēn |
| kMatthews | 5720 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009685 |
| kMorohashi | 06249 |
| kPhonetic | 1199 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.6 |
| kSBGY | 109.25 288.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 155.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shēn,xiǎn粵san1,sin2 xiān粵sin1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8265 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 302:267 |