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Glyph for U+51BC
Source: Noto CJK

U+51BC CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​51BC

U+51BC 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 a surname. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xiǎn.

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+51BC offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Xian (Chinese: 咸) is a Chinese surname. Its romanizations in Cantonese and Old Chinese are Haam and Ham or Hahm respectively.

It could refer to the surname 冼 which was chosen to replace the rare character surname Shan which cannot be displayed on a computer with normal coding. Two hundred people from Gaozhuang Village in Mudan District, Heze, Shandong were affected although people who already registered with their original name were allowed to keep it.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 20924
UTF-8 E5 86 BC
UTF-16 51 BC
UTF-32 00 00 51 BC
URL-Quoted %E5%86%BC
HTML hex reference 冼
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 冼
Pīnyīn xiǎn

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51BC
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+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
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+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
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+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
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+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
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+51BC CJK Unified Ideograph-51BC
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) CBCE
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 216A35
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 2-254E
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 2-254E
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) IMHGU
kCantonese (kCantonese) sin2
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) a surname
kEACC (kEACC) 216A35
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 3411.1
kGB0 (kGB0) 5794
kGB1 (kGB1) 5794
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10297.060
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10297.060:shěng,xiǎn
kIICore (kIICore) BGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10297.060
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0132.110
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-597E
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB2-CBCE
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J14-2330
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K2-243E
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T2-254E
kJIS0213 (kJIS0213) 2,03,16
kJapanese (kJapanese) ショウ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) SAMUI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SHOU
kJis1 (kJis1) 1891
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0132.110
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 0405
kMandarin (kMandarin) xiǎn
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ007378
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 01633
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1199
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+14351+15.2.6
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 15.6
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 52.15
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) xiǎn粵sin2
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:3995
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 398.150:xiǎn
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 8112
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 8
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHMT
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1249.040:xiǎn
Xerox Code (kXerox) 310:277