U+9609 "阉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9609 "阉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to castrate" or "eunuch," often associated with historical contexts involving the removal of male reproductive organs for servitude in imperial palaces. It belongs to the Kangxi Radical 169, representing the "gate" or "door" radical, combined with phonetic components that hint at its pronunciation and meaning. In modern usage, this character appears in formal or historical discussions, such as references to "阉割" (yān gē, meaning castration or metaphorically "to emasculate") or "阉党" (yān dǎng, referring to the eunuch factions in Chinese dynastic politics).

General Properties

Code Point	U+9609
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	阉
HTML Hex Encoding	阉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x98 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9609
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009609
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9609

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	29494D
kCangjie	LSKLU
kCantonese	jim1
kDefinition	castrate; eunuch
kEACC	29494D
kFourCornerCode	3771
kGB0	4943
kHanYu	74303.100
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74303.100
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-514B
kTGH	2013:4947
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7050
kMandarin	yān
kPhonetic	1562*
kRSUnicode	169'.8
kTGHZ2013	421.090:yān
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"閹" U+95B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1322.120:yān