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Glyph for U+5915
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U+5915 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​5915

U+5915 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 evening, night, dusk; slanted. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xī.

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+5915 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Radical 36 or radical evening (夕部) meaning "evening" or "sunset" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 34 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

夕 is also the 43rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 22805
UTF-8 E5 A4 95
UTF-16 59 15
UTF-32 00 00 59 15
URL-Quoted %E5%A4%95
HTML hex reference 夕
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 夕
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E0 AA
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) CD BC
Pīnyīn xī

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5915
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+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
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+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
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+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
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+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
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+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-5915
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A469
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 21387A
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-444A
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-444A
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) NI
kCantonese (kCantonese) zik6
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 336.401
kCowles (kCowles) 4547
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0487.040
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) evening, night, dusk; slanted
kEACC (kEACC) 21387A
kFenn (kFenn) 267G
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 163.05
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 2720.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 4
kGB0 (kGB0) 4706
kGB1 (kGB1) 4706
kGSR (kGSR) 0796a
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 4
kHDZRadBreak (kHDZRadBreak) ⼣[U+2F23]:20859.010
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0827
kHanYu (kHanYu) 20859.010
kHangul (kHangul) 석:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) xī(30)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 20859.010:xī,yì
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0487.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 20859.010
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0246.010
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4F26
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A469
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-4D3C
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E2A1
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-602A
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-444A
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-5141
kJapanese (kJapanese) セキ ジャク ゆう ゆうべ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) YUU YUUBE
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SEKI
kJis0 (kJis0) 4528
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0246.010
kKorean (kKorean) SEK SA
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 1461
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 1119
kMandarin (kMandarin) xī
kMatthews (kMatthews) 2485
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 3348
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009430
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 05749
kNelson (kNelson) 1167
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 170
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+3878+36.3.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 36.0
kSBGY (kSBGY) 519.01
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 144.20
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) xī粵zik6
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:46
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 391.010:xī
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 1119
kTang (kTang) *ziɛk
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 3
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) tịch
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1232.020:xī
Xerox Code (kXerox) 255:144