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Glyph for U+58B8
Source: Noto CJK

U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​58B8

U+58B8 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 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+58B8 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

This is a so-called Kanji ghost character or 幽霊文字 (Yūrei Moji). It was erroneously added to the JIS standard in 1978 and doesn’t have any real-world use. See this post and this entry for a discussion. The ghost characters are: U+7A43, U+7CAB, U+6327, U+6A78, U+81A4, U+88AE, U+95A0, U+599B, U+6683, U+6926, U+8EC5, U+9D48, U+6077, U+78B5, U+99F2, U+58B8, U+58E5, U+5F41, U+87D0, and U+69DE.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 22712
UTF-8 E5 A2 B8
UTF-16 58 B8
UTF-32 00 00 58 B8
URL-Quoted %E5%A2%B8
HTML hex reference 墸
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 墸
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) D4 D7

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58B8
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+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
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+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
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+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
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+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
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+58B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-58B8
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) GTJA
kCantonese (kCantonese) zyu3
kEACC (kEACC) 695457
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4416.4 4416.3
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10486.041
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10486.041
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0240.301
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) GE-352B
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-5457
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SHO
kJis0 (kJis0) 5255
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0240.301
kMandarin (kMandarin) zhù
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009319 MJ009319:E0101 MJ009320:E0102 MJ057245:E0103
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+4520+32.3.12
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 32.12
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 14
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) J