unicode

始

U+59CB

CJK Ideograph-59CB

CJK Ideograph-59CB — begin, start; then, only then

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

xid-start

Quick facts

Code point: U+59CB
Decimal: 22987
Name: CJK Ideograph-59CB
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{59cb}' // U+59CB
Python: "\N{CJK Ideograph-59CB}"
HTML: 始

Unihan

Definition: begin, start; then, only then
Mandarin: shǐ
Cantonese: ci2
Japanese on: SHI
Japanese kun: HAJIMERU HAJIME HAJIMARU
Korean: SI
Hangul: 시
Vietnamese: thuỷ
Total strokes: 8
Radical-stroke: 38.5

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

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8
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Notes

Mandarin: shǐ

Related

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U+59CA

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U+59CC

Block

CJK Unified Ideographs

Category

Other Letter

Script

Han

Source

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