U+9109 "鄉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9109 "鄉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "village," "countryside," or "native place" (often romanized as "xiang" in Mandarin). It is composed of the radical for "city" or "town" (阝 on the right) combined with elements suggesting a shared space or community, evoking the concept of a rural settlement or one's homeland. This character is used in various East Asian languages, including Japanese (where it is read as "kyō" or "gō" and also carries meanings related to home or direction) and Korean (where it is pronounced "hyang" and similarly denotes hometown or rural area). Historically, it appears in classical texts and remains common in modern contexts for discussing geography, local identity, and nostalgic ties to one's birthplace.

General Properties

Code Point U+9109
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 鄉
HTML Hex Encoding 鄉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x84 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9109
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009109
C/C++/Java Escape \u9109

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 B66D
kCCCII 215C70
kCNS1986 1-6254
kCNS1992 1-6254
kCangjie VHIIL
kCantonese hoeng1
kDaeJaweon 1775.010
kDefinition country; rural; village
kEACC 215C70
kFanqie 許良
kFourCornerCode 2772.7
kGB1 4771
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0714c
kHanYu 63786.040
kHanyuPinlu xiāng(433)
kHanyuPinyin 63786.040:xiāng,xiǎng,xiàng
kHKGlyph 4185
kIICore ATHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 1775.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63786.040
kIRGKangXi 1275.021
kIRG_GSource G1-4F67
kIRG_HSource HB1-B66D
kIRG_JSource JMJ-026355
kIRG_TSource T1-6254
kJapanese キョウ さと
kJapaneseKun SATO FURUSATO SAKINI
kJapaneseOn KYOU GOU
kKangXi 1275.021
kKarlgren 138
kKorean HYANG
kLau 1166
kMandarin xiāng
kMatthews 2556
kMeyerWempe 707
kMojiJoho MJ026355
kMorohashi 39498'
kPhonetic 463 465
kRSUnicode 163.9
kSBGY 172.20
kSemanticVariant U+90F7<kMatthews U+9115<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant "乡" U+4E61 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 707.10
kSMSZD2003Readings xiāng粵hoeng1
kTaiwanTelegraph 6763
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 243:340
kXHC1983 1257.011:xiāng
kZVariant U+90F7 U+9115