unicode

妹

U+59B9

CJK Ideograph-59B9

CJK Ideograph-59B9 — younger sister

Japanese kanji page for 妹 — readings, meanings, and vocabulary

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Quick facts

Code point: U+59B9
Decimal: 22969
Name: CJK Ideograph-59B9
General category: Lo — Other Letter
Block: CJK Unified Ideographs
Script: Han
Bidi class: L
Combining class: 0
Age: 1.1
Name aliases: —

Normalization & case

Decomposition: —
Uppercase: —
Lowercase: —
Titlecase: —
Case folding: —
Bidi mirrored: No

Layout & width

East Asian Width: W
Line Break: ID
Numeric: —
Script extensions: —

Binary properties

AlphabeticID_StartID_ContinueXID_StartXID_Continue

Developer examples

JS: '\u{59b9}' // U+59B9
Python: "\N{CJK Ideograph-59B9}"
HTML: 妹

Unihan

Definition: younger sister
Mandarin: mèi
Cantonese: mui6
Japanese on: MAI
Japanese kun: IMOUTO IMO
Korean: MAY
Hangul: 매
Vietnamese: muội
Total strokes: 8
Radical-stroke: 38.5

Expanded Japanese study material: kanji 妹 readings and example words.

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-32
HTML decimal
HTML hex
JavaScript
Python
CSS
JSON
URL (UTF-8)
C / C++

Notes

Mandarin: mèi

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Block

CJK Unified Ideographs

Category

Other Letter

Script

Han

Source

Unicode: 16.0.0
WHATWG: —
kanji-data: npmjs.com/package/kanji-data