U+9600 "阀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9600 "阀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "valve" or "clique," and it is composed of the radical for "gate" or "door" combined with a phonetic component. In modern usage, it commonly refers to mechanical valves, such as those used in plumbing or engineering, as well as to factions or powerful groups in political or social contexts, like the term "军阀" for warlord. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is used in both traditional and simplified Chinese writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9600
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	阀
HTML Hex Encoding	阀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x98 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9600
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009600
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9600

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

kCCCII	275E5C
kCangjie	LSOI
kCantonese	fat6
kDefinition	powerful and influential group
kEACC	275E5C
kFourCornerCode	3725
kGB0	2307
kHanYu	74297.020
kHanyuPinlu	fá(48)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74297.020
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-3727
kTGH	2013:1638
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7042
kMandarin	fá
kPhonetic	360*
kRSUnicode	169'.6
kTGHZ2013	090.060:fá
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"閥" U+95A5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0295.050:fá