U+95B9 "閹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
閹
U+95B9 "閹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to the act of castration, particularly in the context of court eunuchs in imperial China, where it denoted both the physical procedure and the resulting state of being a eunuch. Composed of the radical for "gate" or "door" (門) combined with a phonetic component, it appears in classical texts and modern usage to describe the role of eunuchs in palaces, as well as in agricultural contexts referring to the castration of animals. Its pronunciation is "yān" in Mandarin, and it carries a range of connotations from specific historical practices to broader figurative uses in Chinese literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+95B9 |
| 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 | 閹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 閹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x96 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x95B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000095B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u95b9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EC49 |
| kCCCII | 23494D |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5B55 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5B55 |
| kCangjie | ANKLU |
| kCantonese | jim1 |
| kCihaiT | 1410.301 |
| kCowles | 1297 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1842.240 |
| kDefinition | castrate; eunuch |
| kEACC | 23494D |
| kFanqie | 央炎 衣儉 |
| kFenn | 810F |
| kFennIndex | 622.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7771.6 |
| kGB1 | 4943 |
| kGSR | 0614d |
| kHangul | 엄:1N |
| kHanYu | 74303.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74303.090:yān |
| kIICore | BTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1842.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74303.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1337.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-514B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EC49 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6F66 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8288 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6738 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5B55 |
| kJapanese | エン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIMOBE MESHITSUKAI KOBIHETSURA |
| kJapaneseOn | EN |
| kJis0 | 7970 |
| kKangXi | 1337.050 |
| kKarlgren | 238 |
| kKorean | EM |
| kLau | 3447 |
| kMandarin | yān |
| kMatthews | 7385 |
| kMeyerWempe | 869 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027473 |
| kMorohashi | 41372 |
| kNelson | 4963 |
| kPhonetic | 1562 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7073+169.8.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 169.8 |
| kSBGY | 227.26 335.06 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5266<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "阉" U+9609 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 746.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yān粵jim1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7050 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 277:122 |