U+9F59 "齙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F59 "齙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily denotes prominent or protruding teeth, often used in the term "齙牙" (páo yá) to describe buck teeth or an overbite. It is classified as an uncommon character in modern Standard Chinese, typically encountered in descriptive or colloquial contexts rather than formal writing. The character combines the radical "齒" (chǐ, meaning tooth or teeth) on the left, which indicates its semantic association with dental features, and the phonetic component "包" (bāo, meaning to wrap or contain) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation in some Chinese dialects. Historically, the character is part of the broader CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, ensuring consistent encoding across East Asian languages, though its usage in Japanese and Korean is extremely rare. The glyph structure reflects a typical pictophonetic compound, common in Chinese logographic writing, where meaning and sound are

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F59
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	齙
HTML Hex Encoding	齙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F59
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f59

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	F5BE
kCCCII	23602B
kCNS1986	2-6B4C
kCNS1992	2-6B4C
kCangjie	YUPRU
kCantonese	baau6
kDaeJaweon	2071.150
kDefinition	projecting teeth
kFanqie	布交
kFenn	225I
kFennIndex	385.07
kFourCornerCode	2771.2
kGB1	8621
kHanYu	74791.100
kHanyuPinyin	74791.100:bāo
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	2071.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74791.100
kIRGKangXi	1533.070
kIRG_GSource	G1-7635
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F5BE
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-030080
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-921D
kIRG_KSource	K2-7472
kIRG_TSource	T2-6B4C
kJapanese	ホウ ビョウ
kKangXi	1533.070
kKorean	PHO
kMandarin	bāo
kMatthews	4945
kMojiJoho	MJ030080
kMorohashi	48612
kPhonetic	1011*
kRSUnicode	211.5
kSimplifiedVariant	"龅" U+9F85 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	832.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	bāo粵baau6
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	322:061