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U+8596 CJK Unified Ideograph-8596

U+8596 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 empty, hungry-looking. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is kē.

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+8596 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	34198
UTF-8	E8 96 96
UTF-16	85 96
UTF-32	00 00 85 96
URL-Quoted	%E8%96%96
HTML hex reference	薖
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	è––
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)	EE 48
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)	EE 48
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)	EE 48
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)	CB 50
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	CB 50
Pīnyīn	kē

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8596
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Case Folding (cf)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
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)	CJK Unified Ideograph-8596
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive)	EE48
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII)	232647
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986)	2-5E74
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992)	2-5E74
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie)	TYBB
kCantonese (kCantonese)	gwo1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT)	1170.601
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon)	1525.110
Unihan Definition (kDefinition)	empty, hungry-looking
kFanqie (kFanqie)	苦禾
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode)	4430.2
kGB3 (kGB3)	7272
kGSR (kGSR)	0018h
kHanYu (kHanYu)	53280.050
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin)	53280.050:kē
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon)	1525.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian)	53280.050
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi)	1061.150
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource)	G3-6868
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource)	HB2-EE48
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource)	JMJ-022931
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource)	KP1-6FBE
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource)	K2-5A23
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource)	T2-5E74
kJapanese (kJapanese)	カ
kKangXi (kKangXi)	1061.150
kMandarin (kMandarin)	kē
kMatthews (kMatthews)	3399
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe)	1409c
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho)	MJ022931 MJ022931:E0100 MJ022930:E0101
kMorohashi (kMorohashi)	32116 32116:E0100
kPhonetic (kPhonetic)	745
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode)	140.13
kSBGY (kSBGY)	164.01
Simplified Variant (kSimplifiedVariant)	U+30C3E
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph)	5639
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes)	14
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020)	HMT
Xerox Code (kXerox)	306:162