U+5B59 "孙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+5B59 "孙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "grandson" or "descendant," and it is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese, where it also appears in surnames like Sun (a common Chinese family name). This character is composed of the radical for "child" (子) on the bottom and a simplified form of "small" or "young" on top, reflecting its familial and generational meaning. In Japanese, it is pronounced "son" or "mago" and holds similar connotations of lineage and ancestry. The character is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+5B59
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
孙
HTML Hex Encoding
孙
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xAD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5B59
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005B59
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5b59
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kCCCII
273A5B
kCangjie
NDF
kCantonese
syun1
kDefinition
grandchild, descendent; surname
kEACC
273A5B
kFourCornerCode
1940
kGB0
4379
kHanYu
21010.010
kHanyuPinlu
sūn(19)
kIICore
AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21010.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-4B6F
kTGH
2013:570
kKangXi
0278.041
kMainlandTelegraph
1327
kMandarin
sūn
kPhonetic
1242
kRSUnicode
39.3
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
163.08
kTGHZ2013
353.050:sūn
kTotalStrokes
6
kTraditionalVariant
kUnihanCore2020
G
kXHC1983
1101.070:sūn