U+9596 "閖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9596 "閖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that combines the radical for "gate" or "door" (門) with the character for "water" (水), and its meaning is generally understood as the sound or image of water flowing through a gate or entrance. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese, though it occasionally appears in historical or literary contexts, and it is primarily of interest to scholars of ancient scripts or Unicode enthusiasts exploring obscure ideographs. Its structure reflects a compositional blend of semantic components, but no widely recognized standard pronunciation or modern usage exists for it.

General Properties

Code Point U+9596
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 閖
HTML Hex Encoding 閖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x96 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9596
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009596
C/C++/Java Escape \u9596

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

kCangjie ANE
kCantonese seoi2
kDefinition (J) flower name; a water-gate, sluice; toponym
kEACC 696F5D
kFourCornerCode 7723.2
kHanYu 74288.091
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74288.091
kIRGKangXi 1333.091
kIRG_GSource GE-5262
kIRG_HSource H-95E9
kIRG_JSource J0-6F5D
kIRG_TSource TF-3F7E
kJapanese ゆる ゆり ゆれる
kJapaneseKun YURU YURI YURERU
kJis0 7961
kKangXi 1333.091
kMandarin shui
kMojiJoho MJ027436
kMorohashi 41260'
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7064+85.4.8 C+7064+169.8.4
kRSUnicode 169.4
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HJ