U+9115 "鄕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9115 "鄕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents the concept of a village, hometown, or native place, with its etymology rooted in ancient scripts where it depicted a gathering of households or a settlement. This character is a variant of the more commonly simplified form "乡" in modern Chinese, though it retains significant usage in traditional texts, calligraphy, and historical contexts across East Asian writing systems, including Japanese and Korean. Often associated with nostalgia or rural life, "鄕" appears in literary works and place names, embodying a deep cultural connection to community and ancestry.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9115
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	鄕
HTML Hex Encoding	鄕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x84 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9115
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009115
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9115

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

kCNS1986	E-4525
kCNS1992	3-4525
kCangjie	VHHPL
kCantonese	hoeng1
kCihaiT	1344.402
kCowles	1045
kDefinition	country; rural; village
kFenn	365B
kFennIndex	166.07 167.01
kHangul	향:0E
kHanYu	63790.091
kIBMJapan	FBB8
kIICore	AKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63790.091
kIRGKangXi	1275.290
kIRG_GSource	GE-4F69
kIRG_JSource	J3-7C6C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F3A6
kIRG_KSource	K0-7A41
kIRG_TSource	T3-4525
kIRG_VSource	V1-6976
kJapanese	キョウ ゴウ さと さきに むかう
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJIS0213	1,92,76
kJapaneseKun	SATO FURUSATO SAKINI
kJapaneseOn	KYOU GOU
kKangXi	1275.290
kKarlgren	138
kKorean	HYANG
kMandarin	xiāng
kMatthews	2556
kMojiJoho	MJ026367 MJ026367:E0101 MJ026366:E0102 MJ026369:E0103 MJ026368:E0105
kMorohashi	H618 H618:E0101 39571:E0102
kNelson	4771
kPhonetic	463
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8637+163.3.10
kRSUnicode	163.10
kSemanticVariant	U+9109<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	707.16
kTang	*xiɑng
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	KP
kVietnamese	hương
kZVariant	U+90F7 U+9109