U+659E "斞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+659E "斞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning a dry measure for grain, specifically equivalent to one half of a hu (斛) or about five dou (斗), though its exact capacity varied historically. It is composed of the radical 斗 (dǒu, meaning "dipper" or "liquid measure") on the right, indicating its association with volume, and the phonetic component 臾 (yú) on the left, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. This character appears in classical Chinese texts, such as the Zhou Li and other ancient documents concerning weights and measures, but it is rarely used in modern Chinese, having been largely supplanted by standardized measurements and simpler characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+659E
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 斞
HTML Hex Encoding 斞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x96 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x659E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000659E
C/C++/Java Escape \u659e

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 D97B
kCCCII 223679
kCNS1986 2-3C40
kCNS1992 2-3C40
kCangjie HOYJ
kCantonese jyu4
kCihaiT 613.502
kDaeJaweon 0837.060
kDefinition a stack of grain; a measure of 16 dou3
kFanqie 以主
kFourCornerCode 7440.0
kGB5 5062
kGSR 0126c
kHanYu 32255.040
kHanyuPinyin 32255.040:yǔ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0837.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32255.040
kIRGKangXi 0478.180
kIRG_GSource G5-525E
kIRG_HSource HB2-D97B
kIRG_JSource JMJ-013067
kIRG_KPSource KP1-488F
kIRG_KSource K2-382B
kIRG_TSource T2-3C40
kJapanese
kKangXi 0478.180
kMandarin
kMatthews 7610
kMojiJoho MJ013067
kMorohashi 13516
kPhonetic 1609
kRSUnicode 68.9
kSBGY 263.18
kSemanticVariant U+3531<kMatthews U+5EBE<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HMT