U+7396 "玖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
玖
U+7396 "玖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a numeral, representing the number nine in formal or financial contexts, where it is used to prevent forgery on documents like checks and banknotes. This character belongs to the radical “王” (jade/king) and the component “久” (long time), and its original meaning referred to a type of black jade or gemstone before being appropriated for numerical use in ancient Chinese accounting practices. In modern usage, it is a staple of the complex numeral system alongside characters like 壹 (one), 贰 (two), and 叁 (three), and it appears in legal and commercial writing across East Asia, particularly in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7396 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 玖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 玖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8E 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7396 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007396 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7396 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kAccountingNumeric | 9 |
| kBigFive | A868 |
| kCCCII | 214B34 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B2B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B2B |
| kCangjie | MGNO |
| kCantonese | gau2 |
| kCihaiT | 891.402 |
| kCowles | 1572 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1139.170 |
| kDefinition | black-colored jade |
| kEACC | 214B34 |
| kFanqie | 舉有 |
| kFennIndex | 84.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1718.0 |
| kGB0 | 3033 |
| kGB1 | 3033 |
| kGSR | 0993c |
| kHangul | 구:0N |
| kHanYu | 21102.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21102.100:jiǔ |
| kHKGlyph | 2536 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1139.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21102.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0727.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3E41 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A868 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-366A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0FE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F38 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B2B |
| kJapanese | ク キュウ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:602 |
| kJapaneseOn | KYUU KU |
| kJis0 | 2274 |
| kKangXi | 0727.220 |
| kKarlgren | 401 |
| kKorean | KWU |
| kLau | 864 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3773 |
| kMandarin | jiǔ |
| kMatthews | 1198 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1067 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ017132 |
| kMorohashi | 20846 |
| kPhonetic | 586 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1762+96.4.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 96.3 |
| kSBGY | 322.19 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+4E5D<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 424.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǔ粵gau2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3773 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 182.090:jiǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 262:163 |
| kXHC1983 | 0606.060:jiǔ |