U+8C93 "貓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
貓
U+8C93 "貓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a cat, specifically the feline animal, and is used across multiple East Asian languages including Traditional Chinese, Japanese (as the kanji for neko), and Korean (as the hanja for myo). Its form combines the radical for "beast" or "animal" (豸) with a phonetic component (苗) that hints at its pronunciation, and it serves as a common logogram in written texts, personal names, and cultural contexts, symbolizing domesticity, grace, and superstition in various traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C93 |
| 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 | 貓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 貓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB2 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C93 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C93 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c93 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BFDF |
| kCCCII | 215967 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7249 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7249 |
| kCangjie | BHTW |
| kCantonese | maau1 |
| kCihaiT | 1267.207 |
| kCowles | 2593 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1664.050 |
| kDefinition | cat |
| kEACC | 215967 |
| kFanqie | 武瀌 莫交 |
| kFenn | 817C |
| kFennIndex | 331.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4426.0 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1159c |
| kHangul | 묘:1N |
| kHanYu | 63914.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | māo(62) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63914.040:māo |
| kHKGlyph | 3892 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1664.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63914.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1202.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4D50 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BFDF |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7926 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-78C8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6067 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7249 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6778 |
| kJapanese | ビョウ ミョウ ボウ ねこ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,89,06 |
| kJapaneseKun | NEKO |
| kJapaneseOn | BYOU |
| kJis1 | 6305 |
| kKangXi | 1202.300 |
| kKarlgren | 620 |
| kKorean | MYO |
| kLau | 2070 |
| kMandarin | māo |
| kMatthews | 4366 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1755 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024982 MJ024982:E0101 MJ024983:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 36595:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 908 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18709+153.7.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 153.9 |
| kSBGY | 150.13 153.11 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+732B<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "猫" U+732B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 662.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | māo粵maau1 máo粵maau1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6292 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kVietnamese | mèo |
| kXerox | 245:131 |
| kXHC1983 | 0766.011:māo 0768.061:máo |