U+595A "奚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

奚
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+595A "奚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph with a rich historical and linguistic background, functioning as a surname, a pronoun meaning "why" or "how" in classical Chinese, and a component in various compounds. It is composed of the radical for "big" (大) and a phonetic element, and it appears in philosophical texts like the works of Zhuangzi, where it is used to pose rhetorical questions. In modern usage, it remains a relatively rare but recognized character in personal names and classical literature, and it also appears in the names of certain places and historical figures.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+595A
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
奚
HTML Hex Encoding
奚
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA5 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x595A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000595A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u595a

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
AE4F
kCCCII
21393B
kCNS1986
1-5471
kCNS1992
1-5471
kCangjie
BVIK
kCantonese
hai4
kCihaiT
373.203
kDaeJaweon
0514.050
kDefinition
where? what? how? why?; servant
kEACC
21393B
kFanqie
胡雞
kFenn
881G
kFennIndex
159.07
kFourCornerCode
2043.0
kGB0
6241
kGB1
6241
kGSR
0876d
kHangul
해:0E
kHanYu
10541.110
kHanyuPinyin
10541.110:xī
kHKGlyph
0858
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10541.110
kIRG_GSource
G0-5E49
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AE4F
kIRG_JSource
J0-5478
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F5BE
kIRG_KSource
K0-7A28
kIRG_TSource
T1-5471
kIRG_VSource
V2-8B45
kJapanese
ケイ ゲイ なんぞ
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:4587
kJapaneseKun
NANZO
kJapaneseOn
KEI
kJis0
5288
kKangXi
0252.100
kKarlgren
126
kKorean
HAY
kMainlandTelegraph
1153
kMandarin
xī
kMatthews
2425
kMeyerWempe
654b
kMojiJoho
MJ009506
kMorohashi
05930
kPhonetic
427 1170
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4553+37.3.7 C+4553+87.4.6
kRSUnicode
37.7
kSBGY
089.15
kSMSZD2003Index
150.07 407.07
kSMSZD2003Readings
xī粵hai4
kTaiwanTelegraph
1153
kTang
hei
kTGHZ2013
391.190:xī
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
271:332
kXHC1983
1229.050:xī