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Glyph for U+55BC
Source: Noto CJK

U+55BC CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​55BC

U+55BC 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 (Cant.) used phonetically in English loan-words (e.g., cap, keep). Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is jiē.

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+55BC offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 21948
UTF-8 E5 96 BC
UTF-16 55 BC
UTF-32 00 00 55 BC
URL-Quoted %E5%96%BC
HTML hex reference 喼
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake å–¼
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) 9B DA
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) 86 D6
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 86 D6
Pīnyīn jiē

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
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) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
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+55BC CJK Unified Ideograph-55BC
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) RNSP
kCantonese (kCantonese) gip1
kCheungBauer (kCheungBauer) 030/09;RNSP;gep1,gip1,kep1,kip1
kCheungBauerIndex (kCheungBauerIndex) 367.03 367.04 367.05 367.06 367.07 367.08 367.09
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) (Cant.) used phonetically in English loan-words (e.g., cap, keep)
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10658.111
kIICore (kIICore) CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10658.111
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0201.121
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) GH-1228
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) H-9BDA
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) JMJ-057169
kJapanese (kJapanese) きゅう
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0201.121
kLau (kLau) 924
kMandarin (kMandarin) jiē
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 1174
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ057169
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1483*
kPseudoGB1 (kPseudoGB1) 9216
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 30.9
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 12
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) H