Unicode Character "妖" (U+5996)

The character 妖 (CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5996) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+5996. It is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as 妖.

Main Unicode Properties

Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5996
Unicode Codepoint U+5996
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+5996 Conversion

HTML (decimal) 妖
HTML (hex) 妖
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E5%A6%96
CSS \5996
JavaScript \u{5996}
JSON \u5996
C, C++ \U00005996
Java \u5996
Python \U00005996
Rust \u{5996}
Ruby \u{5996}

How to type "妖"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 5 9 9 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 5 9 9 6. Release Alt.

Preview

  • 妖
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • 妖
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • 妖
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE5 0xA6 0x96
UTF-16 (hex) 0x5996
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00005996

References