U+59E8 "姨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

姨
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+59E8 "姨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "aunt," specifically referring to the sister of one's mother, or sometimes a younger sister of one's father, as well as a general term of respect for a woman of one's mother's generation. It is composed of the radical for woman (女, nǚ) on the left, indicating its association with female family relations, and the phonetic component 夷 on the right. This character is widely used in Mandarin Chinese and other East Asian languages, appearing in family titles, kinship terms, and honorifics, and it reflects the elaborate system of familial relationships in Sinosphere cultures.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+59E8
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
姨
HTML Hex Encoding
姨
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA7 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x59E8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000059E8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u59e8

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
ABBC
kCCCII
21396C
kCNS1986
1-505E
kCNS1992
1-505E
kCangjie
VKN
kCantonese
ji4
kCihaiT
384.201
kCowles
1270
kDaeJaweon
0526.140
kDefinition
mother/wife's sister; concubine
kEACC
21396C
kFanqie
以脂
kFenn
251F
kFennIndex
218.06
kFourCornerCode
4543.2
kGB0
5044
kGB1
5044
kGradeLevel
4
kGSR
0551e
kHangul
이:0N
kHanYu
21043.120
kHanyuPinlu
yí(55)
kHanyuPinyin
21043.120:yí
kHKGlyph
0905
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21043.120
kIRG_GSource
G0-524C
kIRG_HSource
HB1-ABBC
kIRG_JSource
J0-5529
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-FCAB
kIRG_KSource
K0-6C29
kIRG_TSource
T1-505E
kIRG_VSource
V0-3475
kJapanese
イ おば
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:1737
kJapaneseKun
OBA
kJapaneseOn
I
kJis0
5309
kKangXi
0260.150
kKarlgren
186
kKorean
I
kLau
3418 3419
kMainlandTelegraph
1210
kMandarin
yí
kMatthews
2985
kMeyerWempe
853
kMojiJoho
MJ009666
kMorohashi
06222
kPhonetic
1542
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4568+38.3.6
kRSUnicode
38.6
kSBGY
051.10
kSMSZD2003Index
155.16
kSMSZD2003Readings
yí粵ji4 yí粵ji1
kTaiwanTelegraph
1210
kTang
i
kTGHZ2013
432.030:yí
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
dì
kXerox
252:367
kXHC1983
1360.110:yí