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Glyph for U+8591
Source: Noto CJK

U+8591 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8591

U+8591 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 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+8591 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 34193
UTF-8 E8 96 91
UTF-16 85 91
UTF-32 00 00 85 91
URL-Quoted %E8%96%91
HTML hex reference 薑
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake è–‘
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) C1 A4
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) C1 A4
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) E5 47
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) CB B9
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) C1 A4
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) E9 A8
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) E9 A8
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) E9 A8
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) CB B9
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) CB 4B
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) CB 4B
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 69 28 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 69 28 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 69 28 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 69 28 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 69 28 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 69 28 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 4B 39 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) E0 B9
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) E5 47
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) E5 47
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) E5 47
Pīnyīn jiāng

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8591
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+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
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+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
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) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
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+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
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+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
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+8591 CJK Unified Ideograph-8591
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) C1A4
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 215624
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-752E
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-752E
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) TMWM
kCantonese (kCantonese) goeng1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1169.501
kCowles (kCowles) 1640
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1525.070
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) ginger
kEACC (kEACC) 215624
kFanqie (kFanqie) 居良
kFenn (kFenn) 812E
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 45.01
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4410.6
kGB1 (kGB1) 8836
kGSR (kGSR) 0710d
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 3545
kHanYu (kHanYu) 53300.090
kHangul (kHangul) 강:0N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 53300.090:jiāng
kIICore (kIICore) ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1525.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 53300.090
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1061.090
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G1-7844
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-C1A4
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-6928
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-CEBA
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-4B39
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-752E
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-655D
kJapanese (kJapanese) キョウ コウ はじかみ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) HAJIKAMI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) KYOU KOU
kJis0 (kJis0) 7308
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1061.090
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 353
kKorean (kKorean) KANG
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kLau (kLau) 899
kMandarin (kMandarin) jiāng
kMatthews (kMatthews) 642
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 1128
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ022921 MJ022921:E0101 MJ022922:E0102
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 32110:E0102
kNelson (kNelson) 4060
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 607
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+6447+140.3.13
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 140.13
kSBGY (kSBGY) 173.40
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 601.08
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) jiāng粵goeng1
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+8441 U+8441
Simplified Variant (kSimplifiedVariant) Glyph for U+59DC U+59DC
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 5637
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 16
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) gừng
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0560.051:jiāng
Xerox Code (kXerox) 262:320