U+5B59 "孙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
孙
U+5B59 "孙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "grandson" or "descendant," and it is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese, where it also appears in surnames like Sun (a common Chinese family name). This character is composed of the radical for "child" (子) on the bottom and a simplified form of "small" or "young" on top, reflecting its familial and generational meaning. In Japanese, it is pronounced "son" or "mago" and holds similar connotations of lineage and ancestry. The character is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B59 |
| 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 | 孙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 孙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAD 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b59 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273A5B |
| kCangjie | NDF |
| kCantonese | syun1 |
| kDefinition | grandchild, descendent; surname |
| kEACC | 273A5B |
| kFourCornerCode | 1940 |
| kGB0 | 4379 |
| kHanYu | 21010.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sūn(19) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21010.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0278.041 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B6F |
| kTGH | 2013:570 |
| kKangXi | 0278.041 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1327 |
| kMandarin | sūn |
| kPhonetic | 1242 |
| kRSUnicode | 39.3 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "孙" U+5B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 163.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 353.050:sūn |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "孙" U+5B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "孫" U+5B6B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1101.070:sūn |