U+9604 "阄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9604 "阄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used in the East Asian script, and its modern meaning is often associated with the concept of drawing lots or casting lots, such as in a lottery or random selection process. In classical Chinese, this character can also refer to a method of divination or a specific kind of tally used for gambling decisions. It belongs to the radical "door" (门) and is most frequently found in historical texts or regional vocabulary, though it has limited usage in everyday contemporary writing compared to more common characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9604
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	阄
HTML Hex Encoding	阄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x98 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9604
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009604
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9604

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	295574
kCangjie	LSNWU
kCantonese	gau1
kDefinition	lots (to be drawn); draw lots
kEACC	295574
kFourCornerCode	3771
kGB0	6746
kHanYu	74301.020
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74301.020
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-634E
kTGH	2013:4630
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7596
kMandarin	jiū
kPhonetic	1321*
kRSUnicode	169'.7
kSMSZD2003Index	746.05
kTGHZ2013	182.020:jiū
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"鬮" U+9B2E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0604.190:jiū