U+959F "閟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
閟
U+959F "閟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to close" or "to shut," often carrying a sense of secrecy or concealment, and it also conveys the idea of something profound, hidden, or mysterious. This character is composed of the radical for "gate" or "door" (門) combined with the phonetic component 必, and it appears in classical literary contexts, including ancient Chinese poetry and philosophical texts, where it can describe a hidden virtue or a closely guarded place. While rarely used in modern everyday language, it retains a formal and literary tone, sometimes appearing in historical names or compound words related to obscurity or privacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+959F |
| 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 | 閟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 閟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x96 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x959F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000959F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u959f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E0CD |
| kCCCII | 234938 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4853 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4853 |
| kCangjie | ANPH |
| kCantonese | bei3 |
| kCihaiT | 1408.502 |
| kCowles | 3261 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1840.020 |
| kDefinition | hide, keep secret; hideaway |
| kEACC | 234938 |
| kFanqie | 兵媚 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7733.0 |
| kGB3 | 2693 |
| kGSR | 0405n |
| kHangul | 비:1N |
| kHanYu | 74293.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74293.110:bì |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1840.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74293.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1333.320 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3A7D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E0CD |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7D4F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-824A |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6330 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4853 |
| kJapanese | ヒ おえる おわる つつしむ とざす とじる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,93,47 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOJIRU |
| kJapaneseOn | HI |
| kJis1 | 7009 |
| kKangXi | 1333.320 |
| kKorean | PI |
| kMandarin | bì |
| kMatthews | 5089 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2316b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027444 |
| kMorohashi | 41283 |
| kPhonetic | 1059 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17177+169.8.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 169.5 |
| kSBGY | 351.20 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𮤲" U+2E932 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 745.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bì粵bei3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7038 |
| kTang | byì |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 307:275 |