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U+53BF CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF

U+53BF 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 county, district, subdivision. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xiàn.

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+53BF offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Counties (simplified Chinese: 县; traditional Chinese: 縣; pinyin: Xiàn) are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in provinces and autonomous regions and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banners and city districts. There are 1,355 counties in mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions.
The term xian is sometimes translated as "district" or "prefecture" when put in the context of Chinese history.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	21439
UTF-8	E5 8E BF
UTF-16	53 BF
UTF-32	00 00 53 BF
URL-Quoted	%E5%8E%BF
HTML hex reference	县
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	åŽ¿
Pīnyīn	xiàn

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53BF
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
Case Folding (cf)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-53BF
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII)	455164
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie)	BMI
kCantonese (kCantonese)	jyun6
Unihan Definition (kDefinition)	county, district, subdivision
kEACC (kEACC)	455164
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode)	7773
kFrequency (kFrequency)	4
kGB0 (kGB0)	4756
kHanYu (kHanYu)	10386.090
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu)	xiàn(429)
kIICore (kIICore)	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian)	10386.090
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi)	0164.161
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource)	G0-4F58
kKangXi (kKangXi)	0164.161
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph)	4905
kMandarin (kMandarin)	xiàn
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode)	28.5
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index)	82.08
kTGH (kTGH)	2013:720
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013)	399.120:xiàn
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes)	7
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant)	U+7E23
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020)	G
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983)	1250.070:xiàn