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Glyph for U+8593
Source: Noto CJK

U+8593 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8593

U+8593 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 ginseng. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is shēn.

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+8593 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 34195
UTF-8 E8 96 93
UTF-16 85 93
UTF-32 00 00 85 93
URL-Quoted %E8%96%93
HTML hex reference 薓
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake è–“
Pīnyīn shēn

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8593
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+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
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+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
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+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
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+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
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+8593 CJK Unified Ideograph-8593
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 232624
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) E-5629
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 3-5629
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) XTESE
kCantonese (kCantonese) sam1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1171.407
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1525.080
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) ginseng
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 444.03
kGB5 (kGB5) 7431
kHanYu (kHanYu) 53308.060
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 53308.060:shēn
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1525.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 53308.060
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1061.110
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G5-6A3F
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) H-8776
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J14-767B
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP1-6FCF
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T3-5629
kJIS0213 (kJIS0213) 2,86,91
kJapanese (kJapanese) シン
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) NINJIN CHOUSENNINJIN
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SHIN
kJis1 (kJis1) 5763
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1061.110
kMandarin (kMandarin) shēn
kMatthews (kMatthews) 5723
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ022924 MJ022924:E0101 MJ022925:E0102
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 32112:E0102
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+18550+140.3.13
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 140.13
kSBGY (kSBGY) 220.21
Specialized Semantic Variant (kSpecializedSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+53C3 U+53C3
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 16
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) H