U+59E2 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+59E2 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in classical and some modern contexts of East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This character is typically read as "juàn" in Mandarin, and its fundamental meaning revolves around the concept of "good" or "excellent," often referring to a woman of grace or beauty. It belongs to the radical "女" (woman), which indicates its semantic association with feminine qualities, and its structure combines this radical with the phonetic component "肙" to suggest both sound and sense. In Japanese, it can appear in the name "Hime" or be used in classical literature, while its usage in modern standard Chinese is relatively rare, having been largely supplanted by more common characters like "娟" (also meaning graceful or beautiful). Overall, U+59E2 represents a specific, elegant, and somewhat antiquated ideograph within the vast CJK character repertoire.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
姢
HTML Hex Encoding
姢
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA7 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x59E2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000059E2
C/C++/Java Escape
\u59e2

Unihan Properties

kCCCII
2D397A
kCNS1986
E-2C2C
kCNS1992
3-2C2C
kCangjie
VIB
kCantonese
gyun1
kDefinition
beautiful, graceful
kHangul
연:N
kHanYu
21049.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21049.030
kIRG_GSource
GE-3563
kIRG_JSource
JMJ-009659
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3D34
kIRG_KSource
K2-2C33
kIRG_TSource
T3-2C2C
kJapanese
エン ケン
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
ADEYAKA SHINAYAKA KOBIRU UTSUKUSHII
kJapaneseOn
KEN EN
kKangXi
0260.050
kKorean
YEN
kMandarin
juān
kMojiJoho
MJ009659
kMorohashi
06213
kPhonetic
1621A*
kRSUnicode
38.6
kSBGY
141.21
kTotalStrokes
9