U+960E "阎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+960E "阎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to the gate of a village or a lane entrance, and it is most commonly known today as the surname Yan or as a component in the term "Yanluo," the Chinese name for Yama, the Buddhist and Taoist deity who judges the dead in the underworld. This ideograph is composed of the radical for "gate" (门) surrounding the phonetic element "臽," which contributes to its pronunciation and meaning. In modern usage, "阎" appears in personal names and in terms related to the afterlife, retaining its strong cultural and religious associations within East Asian traditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+960E
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	阎
HTML Hex Encoding	阎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x98 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x960E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000960E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u960e

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	275E60
kCangjie	LSNHX
kCantonese	jim4
kDefinition	village gate; surname
kEACC	275E60
kFourCornerCode	3777
kGB0	4954
kHanYu	74306.010
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74306.010
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-5156
kTGH	2013:2396
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7051
kMandarin	yán
kPhonetic	421*
kRSUnicode	169'.8
kTGHZ2013	422.130:yán
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"閻" U+95BB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1325.010:yán