U+959B "閛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
閛
U+959B "閛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant or archaic form of the character 開 (simplified 开, meaning "to open" or "to begin"). Composed of the radical 門 (door, gate) on the outside and a phonetic or semantic component within, its original meaning likely related to the action of opening a door or barrier. In classical texts, it appears infrequently, often in specialized or historical contexts, and its use in modern Chinese or Japanese is extremely limited, making it more of a linguistic curiosity for scholars of ancient script and character evolution.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+959B |
| 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 | 閛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 閛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x96 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x959B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000959B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u959b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E0D0 |
| kCCCII | 234939 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4856 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4856 |
| kCangjie | ANMFJ |
| kCihaiT | 1408.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1839.170 |
| kFanqie | 普耕 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7740.9 |
| kGB3 | 2690 |
| kHanYu | 74292.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74292.050:pēng,pèng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1839.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74292.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1333.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3A7A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E0D0 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-027440 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-824F |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6B31 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4856 |
| kJapanese | ハウ ヒョウ |
| kKangXi | 1333.160 |
| kMandarin | pēng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027440 |
| kMorohashi | 41267 |
| kPhonetic | 1058* |
| kRSUnicode | 169.5 |
| kSBGY | 189.19 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𰿬" U+30FEC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |