U+9612 "阒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9612 "阒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional and classical texts, primarily meaning "quiet," "still," or "tranquil," often describing a place that is deeply silent or devoid of activity. It is composed of the radical "门" (door/gate) indicating enclosure, and the phonetic component "臭" (smell/odor), though the overall meaning relates more to stillness than scent. This character appears infrequently in modern Chinese, but is found in literary or poetic contexts to evoke a sense of profound quietude or isolation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9612
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	阒
HTML Hex Encoding	阒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x98 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9612
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009612
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9612

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	29495A
kCangjie	LSBUK
kCantonese	gwik1
kDefinition	alone; quiet, still
kEACC	29495A
kFourCornerCode	3780
kGB0	6754
kHanYu	74308.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74308.060
kIRGKangXi	1343.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-6356
kTGH	2013:5267
kKangXi	1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph	7055
kMandarin	qù
kRSUnicode	169'.9
kTGHZ2013	309.010:qù
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"闃" U+95C3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0946.020:qù