U+960D "阍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+960D "阍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a gatekeeper or the act of guarding a gate, and it is often associated with the entrance to a palace or a city wall in classical contexts. Found in historical texts, this character is composed of the radical "门" (door) and the phonetic component "昏" (dusk), reflecting its literal connection to the threshold or portal of a building. In modern usage, it is considered a rare or literary character, appearing mainly in classical literature, historical records, or formal names rather than everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+960D
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	阍
HTML Hex Encoding	阍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x98 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x960D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000960D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u960d

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	294952
kCangjie	LSHPA
kCantonese	fan1
kDefinition	gatekeeper; gate, door
kEACC	294952
kFourCornerCode	3760
kGB0	6752
kHanYu	74305.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74305.100
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-6354
kTGH	2013:4950
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7053
kMandarin	hūn
kRSUnicode	169'.8
kTGHZ2013	150.010:hūn
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"閽" U+95BD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0507.020:hūn