U+9679 "陹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9679 "陹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character, primarily used in classical or historical texts rather than modern common writing. It is a combination of the radical for "mound" or "hill" (阝 on the left) and a phonetic component on the right, suggesting a meaning related to climbing or ascending a height, though its exact usage and definition are often obscure or outdated. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which includes thousands of characters shared across East Asian writing systems, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures it can be digitally represented despite its infrequency in everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point U+9679
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 陹
HTML Hex Encoding 陹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x99 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9679
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009679
C/C++/Java Escape \u9679

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 255F32
kCNS1986 E-3965
kCNS1992 3-3965
kCangjie NLHTA
kCantonese sing1
kHangul 승:N
kHanYu 64137.150
kHanyuPinyin 64137.150:shēng
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64137.150
kIRGKangXi 1355.100
kIRG_GSource GE-532C
kIRG_JSource JMJ-027621
kIRG_KPSource KP1-833F
kIRG_TSource T3-3965
kJapanese ショウ
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 1355.100
kMandarin shēng
kMojiJoho MJ027621
kMorohashi 41716
kRSUnicode 170.8
kTotalStrokes 10