U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-59DC
U+59DC was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as surname; ginger. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is jiāng.
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+59DC offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Jiang (Chinese: 姜, also romanized Gang, Geung, Gung, Chiang, Kang, Keung, Keong, Kiang) is one of the oldest Chinese surnames, being one of the original xing (姓) surnames. It was one of the "Eight Great Xings of High Antiquity" (上古八大姓), along with Jī (姬), Yáo (姚), Yíng (嬴), Sì (姒), Yún (妘), Guī (媯) and Rèn (妊), though some sources quote Jí (姞) as the last one instead of Rèn. Of these xing, only Jiang and Yao have survived in their original form to modern days as frequently occurring surnames. It is the 32nd surname listed in the Song dynasty-era Hundred Family Surnames poem. It is the 60th most common surname in China (2007), roughly 0.34% of the Han Chinese population. The Lu clan of Fanyang stem from this surname before taking on the Lu (盧) surname. Derivative surnames of Jiang include Zhang,Lü,Qiu, Shen., These originated:
- In the Qi (state), Jiang Ziya's descendants had the surname Jiang (姜)
- In the Qi (state), those with the surname Huan (桓) changed it to Jiang (姜)
- Chinese minority members of the population such as the Dong people, Tujia people, Yao people took the surname Jiang (姜)
- During the Yuan dynasty, Mongols were given the surname Jiang (姜)
- During the Qing dynasty, Russians, or the Eluosizu people, were given the surname Jiang (姜)
Additionally, it is the most common Hanja that represents the Korean surname Kang.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 23004 |
UTF-8 | E5 A7 9C |
UTF-16 | 59 DC |
UTF-32 | 00 00 59 DC |
URL-Quoted | %E5%A7%9C |
HTML hex reference | 姜 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 姜 |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | CB A9 |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | D5 AA |
Pīnyīn | jiāng |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59DC | |
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Ideographic | |
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U | |
ABB8 | |
213968 | |
1-505A | |
1-505A | |
TGV | |
goeng1 | |
383.501 | |
1644 | |
0525.210 | |
surname; ginger | |
275624 | |
151H | |
45.03 | |
8040.4 | |
5 | |
2910 | |
2910 | |
0711a | |
0901 | |
21047.110 | |
강:0N | |
jiāng(13) | |
21047.110:jiāng | |
AGTJHKMP | |
0525.210 | |
21047.110 | |
0259.200 | |
G0-3D2A | |
HB1-ABB8 | |
J0-552A | |
KP0-CEAA | |
K0-4B29 | |
T1-505A | |
キョウ コウ | |
TSUYOI | |
KYOU | |
5310 | |
0259.200 | |
352 | |
KANG | |
2015 | |
1203 | |
jiāng | |
637 | |
1130c | |
MJ009653 | |
06205 | |
3657 | |
607 609 1530 | |
C+4569+38.3.6 C+4569+123.6.3 | |
38.6 | |
174.11 | |
155.12 538.01 | |
jiāng粵goeng1 | |
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2013:1643 | |
166.160,166.170:jiāng | |
1203 | |
9 | |
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GHJKMPT | |
0560.050:jiāng | |
262:275 |