U+59CB "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+59CB "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that signifies the concept of beginning, start, or origin, commonly used in compounds such as "开始" meaning to start or "始终" meaning from beginning to end. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it represents a fundamental semantic element in East Asian scripts, where its visual structure comprises the radical for woman on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its historical evolution. This character is widely employed in formal and informal contexts across multiple languages to denote the initiation of an action, event, or condition, underscoring its importance in both written communication and cultural expressions of time and sequence.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
始
HTML Hex Encoding
始
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA7 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x59CB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000059CB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u59cb

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
A96C
kCCCII
213965
kCNS1986
1-4C6E
kCNS1992
1-4C6E
kCangjie
VIR
kCantonese
ci2
kCihaiT
381.102
kCowles
523
kDaeJaweon
0523.220
kDefinition
begin, start; then, only then
kEACC
213965
kFanqie
詩止
kFenn
718D
kFennIndex
453.04
kFourCornerCode
4346.0
kGB0
4228
kGB1
4228
kGradeLevel
3
kGSR
0976e'
kHangul
시:0E
kHanYu
21041.120
kHanyuPinlu
shǐ(606)
kHanyuPinyin
21041.120:shǐ
kHKGlyph
0897
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21041.120
kIRG_GSource
G0-4A3C
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A96C
kIRG_JSource
J0-3B4F
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E4FC
kIRG_KSource
K0-6337
kIRG_TSource
T1-4C6E
kIRG_VSource
V1-5171
kJapanese
シ はじめる はじまる はじめ はじめて
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:1329
kJapaneseKun
HAJIMERU HAJIME HAJIMARU
kJapaneseOn
SHI
kJis0
2747
kKangXi
0258.160
kKarlgren
184
kKorean
SI
kLau
281
kMainlandTelegraph
1193
kMandarin
shǐ
kMatthews
5772
kMeyerWempe
256
kMojiJoho
MJ009634
kMorohashi
06166
kNelson
1208
kPhonetic
1373
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2205+38.3.5
kRSUnicode
38.5
kSBGY
253.02
kSMSZD2003Index
154.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
shǐ粵ci2
kTaiwanTelegraph
1193
kTang
*shiə̌
kTGHZ2013
336.040:shǐ
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
thuỷ
kXerox
244:136
kXHC1983
1046.010:shǐ