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Glyph for U+59CB
Source: Noto CJK

U+59CB CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​59CB

U+59CB 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 begin, start; then, only then. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is shǐ.

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+59CB offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 22987
UTF-8 E5 A7 8B
UTF-16 59 CB
UTF-32 00 00 59 CB
URL-Quoted %E5%A7%8B
HTML hex reference 始
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 始
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E3 B7
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) BB CF
Pīnyīn shǐ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CB
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+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
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+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
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+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
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+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
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+59CB CJK Unified Ideograph-59CB
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A96C
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 213965
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4C6E
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4C6E
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) VIR
kCantonese (kCantonese) ci2
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 381.102
kCowles (kCowles) 523
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0523.220
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) begin, start; then, only then
kEACC (kEACC) 213965
kFenn (kFenn) 718D
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 453.04
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4346.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 2
kGB0 (kGB0) 4228
kGB1 (kGB1) 4228
kGSR (kGSR) 0976e'
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 3
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 0897
kHanYu (kHanYu) 21041.120
kHangul (kHangul) 시:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) shǐ(606)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 21041.120:shǐ
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0523.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 21041.120
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0258.160
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4A3C
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A96C
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3B4F
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E4FC
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-6337
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4C6E
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-5171
kJapanese (kJapanese) シ はじめる はじまる はじめ はじめて
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) HAJIMERU HAJIME HAJIMARU
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SHI
kJis0 (kJis0) 2747
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0258.160
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 184
kKorean (kKorean) SI
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 281
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 1193
kMandarin (kMandarin) shǐ
kMatthews (kMatthews) 5772
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 256
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ009634
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 06166
kNelson (kNelson) 1208
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1373
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+2205+38.3.5
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 38.5
kSBGY (kSBGY) 253.02
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 154.05
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) shǐ粵ci2
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:1329
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 336.040:shǐ
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 1193
kTang (kTang) *shiə̌
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 8
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) thuỷ
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1046.010:shǐ
Xerox Code (kXerox) 244:136