U+961B "阛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
阛
U+961B "阛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically refers to a market or a walled enclosure, often appearing in classical texts as a variant or refined form of related characters for a city gate or commercial district. It belongs to the radical "门" (door) and is composed of strokes suggesting an encircled space, but it is not commonly found in modern Chinese writing or everyday vocabulary. Its primary significance lies in its inclusion in the Unicode standard to preserve historical and literary uses, particularly in ancient documents where it describes bustling marketplaces or urban boundaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+961B |
| 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 | 阛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 阛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x98 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x961B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000961B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u961b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 294972 |
| kCangjie | LSWLV |
| kCantonese | waan4 |
| kDefinition | wall around market place |
| kGB8 | 9117 |
| kHanYu | 74320.041 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74320.041 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1343.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | G8-7B31 |
| kKangXi | 1343.121 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7076 |
| kMandarin | huán |
| kPhonetic | 1419* |
| kRSUnicode | 169'.13 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "闤" U+95E4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kXHC1983 | 0490.040:huán |