U+59E5 "姥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+59E5 "姥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for woman (女) on the left and the phonetic component "老" (old) on the right, though its pronunciation and meaning vary across languages. In Chinese, it is often read as "lǎo" or "mǔ" and can mean an old woman, a grandmother, or a respectful term for a maternal elder, while in Japanese it is read as "uba" and commonly refers to a mountain witch or a nursemaid in folklore. The character appears in historical texts and place names, such as in the word "姥姥" (lǎolao) for maternal grandmother in Mandarin, showcasing its enduring cultural significance in East Asian languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+59E5
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
姥
HTML Hex Encoding
姥
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA7 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding
0x59E5
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000059E5
C/C++/Java Escape
\u59e5
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
ABBE
kCCCII
21396D
kCNS1986
1-5060
kCNS1992
1-5060
kCangjie
VJKP
kCantonese
mou5
kCihaiT
384.106
kDaeJaweon
0526.080
kDefinition
maternal grandmother; midwife
kEACC
21396D
kFanqie
莫補
kFenn
189G
kFennIndex
290.03 350.07
kFourCornerCode
4441.1
kGB0
3249
kGB1
3249
kHangul
모:1N
kHanYu
21042.100
kHanyuPinyin
21042.100:mǔ,lǎo
kHKGlyph
0907
kIICore
AGTJHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21042.100
kIRG_GSource
G0-4051
kIRG_HSource
HB1-ABBE
kIRG_JSource
J0-3138
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3D27
kIRG_KSource
K1-604A
kIRG_TSource
T1-5060
kIRG_VSource
V1-5178
kJapanese
ボ モ うば
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:1736
kJapaneseKun
UBA BABA
kJapaneseOn
BO MO
kJis0
1724
kKangXi
0260.090
kKarlgren
515
kKorean
MO
kMainlandTelegraph
1209
kMandarin
lǎo
kMatthews
4583
kMojiJoho
MJ009663
kMorohashi
06216
kNelson
1213
kPhonetic
824
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1242+38.3.6 C+1242+125.6.3
kRSUnicode
38.6
kSBGY
264.24
kSemanticVariant
U+59C6<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
155.15
kSMSZD2003Readings
mǔ粵mou5 lǎo粵lou5
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+59C6<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph
1209
kTang
mǒ
kTGHZ2013
211.060:lǎo
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kVietnamese
mụ
kXerox
257:130
kXHC1983
0682.050:lǎo 0805.070:mǔ