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Glyph for U+958B
Source: Noto CJK

U+958B CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​958B

U+958B 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 open; initiate, begin, start. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is kāi.

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+958B offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 38283
UTF-8 E9 96 8B
UTF-16 95 8B
UTF-32 00 00 95 8B
URL-Quoted %E9%96%8B
HTML hex reference 開
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake é–‹
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) CB D2
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) B3 AB
Pīnyīn kāi

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-958B
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+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
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+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
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+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
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+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
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+958B CJK Unified Ideograph-958B
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) B67D
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 215E53
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-6264
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-6264
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) ANMT
kCantonese (kCantonese) hoi1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1405.401
kCowles (kCowles) 1124
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1835.150
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) open; initiate, begin, start
kEACC (kEACC) 215E53
kFenn (kFenn) 635A
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 236.06 237.01
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 7744.1
kFrequency (kFrequency) 2
kGB1 (kGB1) 3110
kGSR (kGSR) 0541a
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 1
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 4335
kHanYu (kHanYu) 74286.020 74294.040
kHangul (kHangul) 개:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) kāi(3483)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 74286.020:kāi,qiān
kIICore (kIICore) ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1835.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 74286.020
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1331.050
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G1-3F2A
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-B67D
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-332B
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-D3B0
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-4B52
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-6264
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-6A6F
kJapanese (kJapanese) カイ ケン ひらく ひらける あく あける
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) HIRAKU AKU
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) KAI
kJis0 (kJis0) 1911
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1331.050
kKorean (kKorean) KAY
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 1208
kMandarin (kMandarin) kāi
kMatthews (kMatthews) 3204
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 758
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ027420 MJ027420:E0101 MJ027421:E0102
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 41233 41233:E0101 41298:E0102
kNelson (kNelson) 4950
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 488
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+1417+169.8.4
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 169.4
kSBGY (kSBGY) 098.55
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 743.08
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) kāi粵hoi1
Simplified Variant (kSimplifiedVariant) Glyph for U+5F00 U+5F00 Glyph for U+2B52D U+2B52D
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 7030
kTang (kTang) *kəi
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 12
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) khai
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0626.051:kāi
Xerox Code (kXerox) 241:301