U+9416 "鐖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9416 "鐖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in classical and modern Chinese, primarily found in historical texts and specialized contexts. Its meaning relates to a kind of fish, specifically a type of barb or a fish with a sharp spine, and it also appears in ancient records as a component of names or descriptive terms. The character is composed of the "metal" radical (金) on the left, indicating its association with hardness or sharpness, and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its pronunciation (approximately "jī" in Mandarin). While not common in everyday modern usage, it remains a part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, representing a written symbol that carries cultural and etymological significance in East Asian literary traditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9416
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	鐖
HTML Hex Encoding	鐖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x90 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9416
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009416
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9416

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	F4F8
kCCCII	234772
kCNS1986	2-6A46
kCNS1992	2-6A46
kCangjie	CVII
kCantonese	gei1
kCihaiT	1394.202
kDaeJaweon	1822.130
kDefinition	hook, barb, catch, spring
kFanqie	居依
kFourCornerCode	8215.3
kGB3	8553
kHanYu	64261.020
kHanyuPinyin	64261.020:jī,qí
kIRGDaeJaweon	1822.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64261.020
kIRGKangXi	1322.170
kIRG_GSource	G3-7555
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F4F8
kIRG_JSource	J14-7B47
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8172
kIRG_KSource	K2-6A55
kIRG_TSource	T2-6A46
kJapanese	キ ケ ゲ ガイ かま
kJIS0213	2,91,39
kJapaneseKun	SAKABARI
kJapaneseOn	KI KE GE GAI
kJis1	6961
kKangXi	1322.170
kMandarin	jī
kMeyerWempe	1105m
kMojiJoho	MJ027258 MJ027258:E0101 MJ027259:E0102
kMorohashi	40897 40897:E0101
kPhonetic	598*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18869+167.8.12
kRSUnicode	167.12
kSBGY	065.33
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰽕" U+30F55 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	HMT