U+59B9 "妹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+59B9 "妹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "younger sister" in both Chinese and Japanese, where it is used in words like "imōto" (妹妹) in Japanese and "mèimèi" (妹妹) in Chinese, though in Japanese it can also appear in compound terms for "maiden" or "girl." It is composed of the radical for "woman" (女) on the left, which suggests its feminine association, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation (often "mèi" or "mai"). This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, encoded for use across East Asian text systems, and it carries a warm or familial connotation in contexts like literature, naming, and daily conversation.
General Properties
Code Point
U+59B9
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
妹
HTML Hex Encoding
妹
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA6 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x59B9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000059B9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u59b9
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A966
kCCCII
21395C
kCNS1986
1-4C68
kCNS1992
1-4C68
kCangjie
VJD
kCantonese
mui6
kCihaiT
380.505
kCowles
2765 2776
kDaeJaweon
0522.230
kDefinition
younger sister
kEACC
21395C
kFanqie
莫佩
kFenn
495A
kFennIndex
334.05
kFourCornerCode
4549.0
kGB0
3535
kGB1
3535
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0531k
kHangul
매:0E
kHanYu
21034.060
kHanyuPinlu
mèi(158) mei(100)
kHanyuPinyin
21034.060:mèi
kHKGlyph
0888
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21034.060
kIRG_GSource
G0-4343
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A966
kIRG_JSource
J0-4B65
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-DCBC
kIRG_KSource
K0-5859
kIRG_TSource
T1-4C68
kIRG_VSource
V1-516C
kJapanese
マイ バイ メ いもうと いも
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:1324
kJapaneseKun
IMOUTO IMO
kJapaneseOn
MAI
kJis0
4369
kKangXi
0257.280
kKorean
MAY
kLau
2212 2213
kMainlandTelegraph
1188
kMandarin
mèi
kMatthews
4410
kMeyerWempe
1887 1898
kMojiJoho
MJ009616
kMorohashi
06138
kNelson
1204
kPhonetic
894
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3731+38.3.5
kRSUnicode
38.5
kSBGY
387.48
kSMSZD2003Index
153.20
kSMSZD2003Readings
mèi粵mui6
kSpoofingVariant
U+59BA
kTaiwanTelegraph
1188
kTang
*mə̀i
kTGHZ2013
246.190:mèi
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
muội
kXerox
243:247
kXHC1983
0774.110:mèi