U+959B "閛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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