U+8521 CJK Unified Ideograph-8521
U+8521 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block CJK Unified Ideographs in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as surname; species of tortoise. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is cài.
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+8521 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Cài (Chinese: 蔡) is a Chinese-language surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state. In 2019 it was the 38th most common surname in China, but the 9th most common in Taiwan (as of 2018), where it is usually romanized as "Tsai" (based on Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Mandarin), "Tsay", or "Chai" and the 8th most common in Singapore, where it is usually romanized as "Chua", which is based on its Teochew and Hokkien pronunciation. Koreans use Chinese-derived family names and in Korean, Cai is 채 in Hangul, "Chae" in Revised Romanization, It is also a common name in Hong Kong where it is romanized as "Choy", "Choi" or "Tsoi". In Macau, it is spelled as "Choi". In Malaysia, it is romanized as "Choi" from the Cantonese pronunciation, and "Chua" or "Chuah" from the Hokkien or Teochew pronunciation. It is romanized in the Philippines as "Chua" or "Chuah", and in Thailand as "Chuo" (ฉั่ว). Moreover, it is also romanized in Cambodia as either "Chhay" or "Chhor" among people of full Chinese descent living in Cambodia and as “Tjhai”, "Tjoa" or "Chua" in Indonesia.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 34081 |
| UTF-8 | E8 94 A1 |
| UTF-16 | 85 21 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 85 21 |
| URL-Quoted | %E8%94%A1 |
| HTML hex reference | 蔡 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 蔡 |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | BD B2 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | BD B2 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | E4 EF |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | F3 F9 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | BD B2 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | E8 F1 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | E8 F1 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | E8 F1 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | F3 F9 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | B2 CC |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | B2 CC |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | B2 CC |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 32 4C 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 68 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 68 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 68 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 68 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 68 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 68 71 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 73 79 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | F4 F9 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | E4 EF |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | E4 EF |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | E4 EF |
| Pīnyīn | cài |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8521 | |
| — | |
| CJK Unified Ideographs | |
| Other Letter | |
| Han | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| ✘ | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| ✘ | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✔ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| Yes | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| CJK Unified Ideograph-8521 | |
| U | |
| BDB2 | |
| 215572 | |
| 1-6E5B | |
| 1-6E5B | |
| TBOF | |
| coi3 | |
| 1164.502 | |
| 1517.170 | |
| surname; species of tortoise | |
| 215572 | |
| 倉大 | |
| 515K | |
| 541.07 | |
| 4490.1 | |
| 1844 | |
| 1844 | |
| 0337i | |
| 3531 | |
| 53282.100 | |
| 채:0N | |
| 53282.100:cài,sà,cā | |
| AGTJHKMP | |
| 1517.170 | |
| 53282.100 | |
| 1055.030 | |
| G0-324C | |
| HB1-BDB2 | |
| J0-6871 | |
| KP0-EFBF | |
| K0-7379 | |
| T1-6E5B | |
| サイ サツ サチ | |
| AKUTA OTOROERU HERASU | |
| SAI SATSU | |
| 7281 | |
| 1055.030 | |
| CHAY SAL | |
| 2015 | |
| 5591 | |
| cài | |
| 6673 | |
| 3445a | |
| MJ022701 MJ022701:E0101 MJ022702:E0102 MJ060130:E0103 | |
| 31818:E0102 | |
| 54 246 | |
| C+6426+140.3.11 | |
| 140.11 | |
| 382.54 | |
| 597.03 | |
| cài粵coi3 | |
| 2013:3071 | |
| 031.050:cài | |
| 5591 | |
| *tsɑ̀i | |
| 14 | |
| GHJKMPT | |
| 0101.040:cài | |
| 254:100 |