U+76E9 "盩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+76E9 "盩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character, primarily known for its historical use as a place name component in classical texts. It is composed of the radical "皿" (meaning vessel or container) above an abbreviated form of "幸" (meaning fortune or happiness), though its precise meaning in isolation is obscure and often debated. The character gained notable recognition as part of the name of Zhouzhi County in Shaanxi province, China, where it appears in the compound "盩厔," an old name for the region that literally depicts a winding mountain landscape. In modern usage, "盩" is seldom employed outside of this historical toponym and specialized scholarly contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+76E9
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	盩
HTML Hex Encoding	盩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x9B 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x76E9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000076E9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u76e9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	ED79
kCCCII	22613C
kCNS1986	2-5D65
kCNS1992	2-5D65
kCangjie	GKBT
kCantonese	zau1
kCihaiT	942.601
kDaeJaweon	1212.120
kDefinition	callus
kEACC	22613C
kFanqie	張流
kFourCornerCode	4810.7
kGB3	5937
kGSR	1074a
kHanYu	42571.030
kHanyuPinyin	42571.030:zhōu,chóu
kIRGDaeJaweon	1212.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42571.030
kIRGKangXi	0797.130
kIRG_GSource	G3-5B45
kIRG_HSource	HB2-ED79
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-018111
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5D75
kIRG_KSource	K2-4A6E
kIRG_TSource	T2-5D65
kJapanese	チュウ チュ ジュ
kKangXi	0797.130
kMandarin	zhōu
kMeyerWempe	1685h
kMojiJoho	MJ018111
kMorohashi	23060
kPhonetic	79 438
kRSUnicode	108.12
kSBGY	210.03
kSemanticVariant	U+76ED<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	458.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhōu粵zau1
kTaiwanTelegraph	4154
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	305:045
kXHC1983	1504.050:zhōu