U+59BE "妾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

妾
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+59BE "妾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a concubine or a secondary wife in traditional East Asian societies, often implying a subordinate or servile status within a household. In classical and literary Chinese, it also served as a humble first-person pronoun used by women to refer to themselves, conveying modesty and deference. The character is composed of the radical 女 (woman) and the phonetic component 㐄, reflecting its semantic roots in female identity and hierarchical relationships.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+59BE
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
妾
HTML Hex Encoding
妾
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA6 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding
0x59BE
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000059BE
C/C++/Java Escape
\u59be

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
A963
kCCCII
213958
kCNS1986
1-4C65
kCNS1992
1-4C65
kCangjie
YTV
kCantonese
cip3
kCihaiT
380.602
kCowles
4768
kDaeJaweon
0523.060
kDefinition
concubine
kEACC
213958
kFanqie
七接
kFenn
85G
kFennIndex
57.12
kFourCornerCode
0040.4
kGB0
7010
kGB1
7010
kGSR
0635a
kHangul
첩:0E
kHanYu
21040.080
kHanyuPinyin
21040.080:qiè
kHKGlyph
0886
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21040.080
kIRG_GSource
G0-662A
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A963
kIRG_JSource
J0-3E2A
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EDCF
kIRG_KSource
K0-745D
kIRG_TSource
T1-4C65
kIRG_VSource
V1-516E
kJapanese
ショウ めかけ わらわ
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:4001
kJapaneseKun
MEKAKE WARAWA
kJapaneseOn
SHOU
kJis0
3010
kKangXi
0257.390
kKorean
CHEP
kLau
326
kMainlandTelegraph
1190
kMandarin
qiè
kMatthews
814
kMeyerWempe
3384
kMojiJoho
MJ009621
kMorohashi
06147
kNelson
3346
kPhonetic
206 767
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2450+38.3.5 C+2450+117.5.3
kRSUnicode
38.5
kSBGY
540.17
kSMSZD2003Index
154.01 15.04 493.08
kSMSZD2003Readings
qiè粵cip3
kTaiwanTelegraph
1190
kTang
*tsziɛp
kTGHZ2013
301.080:qiè
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
thiếp
kXerox
262:276
kXHC1983
0923.090:qiè