U+95BB "閻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

閻

U+95BB "閻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) traditionally used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese as well as in Japanese Kanji, where it is most commonly associated with the surname Yan or the meaning "gate" or "village gate." Historically, it appears in classic texts such as the Zhou dynasty dictionary "Shuowen Jiezi," which defines it as the space between two gates in a lane or alley, though its modern usage is largely confined to proper names, including the prominent Buddhist figure Yanluo (Yama, the god of the underworld) in the term "閻羅王." The character is composed of the radical for "gate" (門) as its outer enclosure and the phonetic component "臽" inside, reflecting its structural and phonetic origins in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+95BB
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	閻
HTML Hex Encoding	閻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x96 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x95BB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000095BB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u95bb

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	C046
kCCCII	215E60
kCNS1986	1-726F
kCNS1992	1-726F
kCangjie	ANNHX
kCantonese	jim4
kCihaiT	1410.302
kCowles	1322
kDaeJaweon	1842.310
kDefinition	village gate; surname
kEACC	215E60
kFanqie	余廉
kFenn	683H
kFennIndex	624.12
kFourCornerCode	7777.7
kGB1	4954
kGSR	0672m
kHangul	염:0N
kHanYu	74305.110
kHanyuPinyin	74305.110:yán,yǎn,yàn
kHKGlyph	4348
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1842.310
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74305.110
kIRGKangXi	1337.120
kIRG_GSource	G1-5156
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C046
kIRG_JSource	J0-6F65
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F9A9
kIRG_KSource	K0-6722
kIRG_TSource	T1-726F
kIRG_VSource	V2-9122
kJapanese	エンセンゼン
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	CHIMATA HIRAKU SUSUMERU
kJapaneseOn	EN SEN
kJis0	7969
kKangXi	1337.120
kKarlgren	147
kKorean	YEM
kLau	3452
kMandarin	yán
kMatthews	7395
kMeyerWempe	879
kMojiJoho	MJ027475 MJ027475:E0102 MJ027476:E0103
kMorohashi	41379 41379:E0102
kNelson	4965
kPhonetic	421 1567
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7072+169.8.8 V+7876+169.8.8
kRSUnicode	169.8
kSBGY	225.11
kSemanticVariant	U+9586<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"阎" U+960E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	746.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	yán粵jim4
kTaiwanTelegraph	7051
kTang	iɛm
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	262:346