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Glyph for U+8B59
Source: Noto CJK

U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8B59

U+8B59 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 tower; surname. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is qiào.

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+8B59 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 35673
UTF-8 E8 AD 99
UTF-16 8B 59
UTF-32 00 00 8B 59
URL-Quoted %E8%AD%99
HTML hex reference 譙
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake è­™
Pīnyīn qiào

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B59
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+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
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+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
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+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
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+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
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+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-8B59
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) C3D7
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 233459
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-7924
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-7924
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) YROGF
kCantonese (kCantonese) ciu4
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1255.305
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1645.020
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) tower; surname
kEACC (kEACC) 233459
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 53.02
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 0063.1
kGB1 (kGB1) 5859
kGSR (kGSR) 1148j
kHanYu (kHanYu) 64019.030
kHangul (kHangul) 초:1N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 64019.030:qiào,qiáo
kIICore (kIICore) AT
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1645.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 64019.030
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1182.020
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G1-5A5B
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-C3D7
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J13-7C33
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP1-7774
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K1-6F79
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-7924
kJIS0213 (kJIS0213) 1,92,19
kJapanese (kJapanese) ショウ ジョウ スイ ズイ しかる せめる たかどの ものみやぐら
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) SHIKARU
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SHOU JOU SUI ZUI
kJis1 (kJis1) 6245
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1182.020
kKorean (kKorean) CHO
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kMandarin (kMandarin) qiào
kMatthews (kMatthews) 758
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 3401d
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ024778
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 35976
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 216
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+17129+149.7.12
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 149.12
kSBGY (kSBGY) 147.34
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 655.12
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) qiáo粵ciu4
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+8A9A U+8A9A
Simplified Variant (kSimplifiedVariant) Glyph for U+8C2F U+8C2F
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 6222
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 19
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HMT
Xerox Code (kXerox) 306:355