U+9603 "阃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9603 "阃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to the threshold of a gate or door, often specifically the inner door of a women's quarters in ancient Chinese architecture and culture. By extension, it metaphorically signifies the domestic sphere or the realm of women, and appears in classical texts to denote the limits or boundaries of a household. In historical contexts, this character also carried connotations of privacy and separation between inner and outer spaces, reflecting the social customs of genteel seclusion in imperial China.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9603
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	阃
HTML Hex Encoding	阃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x98 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9603
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009603
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9603

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	294944
kCangjie	LSWD
kCantonese	kwan2
kDefinition	threshold; women's quarters
kEACC	294944
kFourCornerCode	3760
kGB0	6745
kHanYu	74300.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74300.050
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-634D
kTGH	2013:4629
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7045
kMandarin	kǔn
kRSUnicode	169'.7
kTGHZ2013	204.130:kǔn
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"閫" U+95AB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0664.110:kǔn