U+96AD "隭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+96AD "隭" CJK Unified Ideograph is a rare Chinese character that appears in classical texts, where it is often used as a variant form of the character "柔" (róu), meaning soft, gentle, or flexible. Its structure combines the radical for "hill" or "mound" (阝 on the left) with a phonetic component related to "need" or "beard" (需 on the right), but its specific meaning is not well defined in modern standard Chinese, and it is most commonly encountered in historical literature or specialized dictionaries for ancient writing. The character is classified under Unicode's CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character sets, though it has very limited contemporary usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+96AD
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	隭
HTML Hex Encoding	隭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9A 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x96AD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000096AD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u96ad

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	234B38
kCNS1986	E-5670
kCNS1992	3-5670
kCangjie	NLMBB
kCantonese	ji4
kDaeJaweon	1865.070
kHanYu	64162.050
kIRGDaeJaweon	1865.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64162.050
kIRGKangXi	1362.060
kIRG_GSource	GE-533B
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-027694
kIRG_TSource	T3-5670
kJapanese	ジ
kKangXi	1362.060
kMandarin	ér
kMojiJoho	MJ027694
kMorohashi	41883
kPhonetic	1250*
kRSUnicode	170.14
kTotalStrokes	16