U+5C59 "屙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5C59 "屙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in written Chinese and Japanese Kanji. It typically means to defecate or to excrete, and is often found in informal or descriptive contexts related to bodily functions. The character is composed of semantic elements associated with the body or action, and its use can be seen in compound words or colloquial expressions, such as in the term "屙屎" (ē shǐ), which means to defecate. While not among the most common characters in modern standard written Chinese, it retains a recognized place in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5C59
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	屙
HTML Hex Encoding	屙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB1 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5C59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005C59
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5c59

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	D4F3
kCCCII	222279
kCNS1986	2-3476
kCNS1992	2-3476
kCangjie	SNLR
kCantonese	o1
kCihaiT	450.303
kCowles	3089
kDaeJaweon	0599.320
kDefinition	to ease nature
kEACC	222279
kFanqie	烏何
kFourCornerCode	7722.1 7722.7
kGB0	6977
kGB1	6977
kHanYu	20976.100
kHanyuPinyin	20976.100:ē
kIICore	BGHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0599.320
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20976.100
kIRGKangXi	0302.180
kIRG_GSource	G0-656D
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D4F3
kIRG_JSource	J1-3A77
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3F09
kIRG_KSource	K2-2E42
kIRG_TSource	T2-3476
kJapanese	ア
kTGH	2013:4680
kJapaneseOn	A
kJis1	2687
kKangXi	0302.180
kLau	2421
kMandarin	ē
kMatthews	4805
kMeyerWempe	2137
kMojiJoho	MJ010366
kMorohashi	07727
kPhonetic	3
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19328+44.3.8
kRSUnicode	44.8
kSMSZD2003Index	179.14
kSMSZD2003Readings	ē粵o1
kTGHZ2013	086.020:ē
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	317:345
kXHC1983	0282.030:ē