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Glyph for U+4EA5
Source: Noto CJK

U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​4EA5

U+4EA5 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as twelfth earthly branch. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is hài.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+4EA5 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Pig () or sometimes translated as the Boar is the twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in Chinese zodiac, in relation to the Chinese calendar and system of horology, and paralleling the system of ten Heavenly Stems and twelve Earthly Branches. Although the term "zodiac" (etymologically referring to a "[circle of] little animals") is used in the phrase "Chinese zodiac", there is a major difference between the Chinese usage and Western astrology: the zodiacal animals (including the zodiacal Pig) do not relate to the zodiac as the area of the sky that extends approximately 8° north or south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun, the Moon, and visible planets across the celestial sphere's constellations, over the course of the year.

In Chinese astrology, "zodiacal" animals refer to fixed cycles of twelve animals. The same cycle of twelve is used for cycles of years and cycles of hours. In the case of years, the cycle of twelve corresponds to the twelve-year cycle of Jupiter. In the case of the hours, the twelve hours represent twelve double-hours for each period of night and day. In the continuous sexagenary cycle of sixty years, every twelfth year corresponds to hai, 亥 (the twelfth of the twelve Earthly Branches); this re-recurring twelfth year is commonly called the Year of the Pig (豬年).

There are five types of Pigs, named after the Chinese elements. In order, they are: Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth. These correspond to the Heavenly Stems. Thus, there are five pig years in every sexagenary cycle. For example, in the year 2019, the Earthly Branch is the twelfth, hài, and the Heavenly Stem is the sixth, 己. The Chinese New Year in 2019 is February fifth: this corresponds with the beginning of both the sexegenary year of hài and also the zodiac year of the Earth Pig.

In the Japanese zodiac and the Tibetan zodiac, the Pig is referred to as the boar. In the Dai zodiac, the Pig is replaced by the elephant. In the Gurung zodiac, the Pig is replaced by the deer. The Malay zodiac replaces the Pig with the tortoise.

Representations

System Representation
20133
UTF-8 E4 BA A5
UTF-16 4E A5
UTF-32 00 00 4E A5
URL-Quoted %E4%BA%A5
HTML hex reference 亥
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 亥
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) FA A4
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) B0 E7
Pīnyīn hài

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EA5
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+4EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-4EA5
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A5E8
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 21305D
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-472A
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-472A
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) YVHO
kCantonese (kCantonese) hoi6
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 78.201
kCowles (kCowles) 1136
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0186.010
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) twelfth earthly branch
kEACC (kEACC) 21305D
kFenn (kFenn) 874H
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 147.03
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 0080.2
kFrequency (kFrequency) 5
kGB0 (kGB0) 2605
kGB1 (kGB1) 2605
kGSR (kGSR) 0937a
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0061
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10283.050
kHangul (kHangul) 해:0E
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10283.050:hài,jiē
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0186.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10283.050
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0088.080
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-3A25
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A5E8
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3067
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-F5BA
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-7A24
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-472A
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-4A5D
kJapanese (kJapanese) ガイ カイ い
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) I
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) GAI KAI
kJinmeiyoKanji (kJinmeiyoKanji) 2010
kJis0 (kJis0) 1671
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0088.080
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 56
kKorean (kKorean) HAY
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 0075
kMandarin (kMandarin) hài
kMatthews (kMatthews) 2004
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 765a
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ006470 MJ006470:E0101 MJ006471:E0102
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 00292:E0102
kNelson (kNelson) 0287
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 490
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+1195+8.2.4
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 8.4
kSBGY (kSBGY) 274.22
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 14.04
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) hài粵hoi6
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:524
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 129.030:hài
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 0075
kTang (kTang) həì
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 6
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) hợi
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0437.010:hài
Xerox Code (kXerox) 261:060