U+9611 "阑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9611 "阑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means a screen or railing, often used in architectural contexts to denote a barrier or partition, such as a balustrade or gate. It also carries extended meanings related to being late or near the end, as seen in phrases like "夜阑" meaning late at night, and can function in classical texts to describe a sense of confinement or obstruction. In simplified Chinese, this character is written as "阑" and retains its core associations with boundaries and temporal closure.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9611
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	阑
HTML Hex Encoding	阑
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x98 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9611
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009611
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9611

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	275E63
kCangjie	LSDWF
kCantonese	laan4
kDefinition	door screen; railing fence
kEACC	275E63
kFourCornerCode	3790
kGB0	3227
kHanYu	74308.010
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74308.010
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-403B
kTGH	2013:5266
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7061
kMandarin	lán
kPhonetic	549* 766*
kRSUnicode	169'.9
kTGHZ2013	208.090:lán
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"闌" U+95CC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0671.140:lán