U+96BE "难" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+96BE "难" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "difficult," "hard," or "troublesome," and is also used to convey the sense of "disaster" or "adversity" in certain contexts. Composed of the radical for "short-tailed bird" and a phonetic component, it is a frequently used character in both Mandarin and other East Asian languages like Japanese and Korean, where it appears in words such as "困难" (kùnnan, meaning difficulty) and "灾难" (zāinàn, meaning catastrophe). This ideograph carries deep cultural and philosophical weight, often appearing in proverbs and classical texts to illustrate the nature of challenge and perseverance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+96BE
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	难
HTML Hex Encoding	难
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9A 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x96BE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000096BE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u96be

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	275F50
kCangjie	EOG
kCantonese	naan4
kDefinition	difficult, arduous, hard; unable
kEACC	275F50
kFennIndex	355.04
kFourCornerCode	7041
kGB0	3649
kHanYu	64090.090
kHanyuPinlu	nán(795) nan(344) nàn(82)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64090.090
kIRGKangXi	1364.131
kIRG_GSource	G0-4451
kIRG_TSource	TF-326F
kIRG_VSource	V2-6F71
kTGH	2013:2147
kKangXi	1364.131
kLau	2250 2251
kMainlandTelegraph	7181
kMandarin	nán
kMatthews	4625
kMeyerWempe	1945a
kPhonetic	546 942
kRSUnicode	172.2 29.8
kSemanticVariant	U+96E3<kLau,kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"难" U+96BE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	85.02 756.05
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+96E3<kFenn
kTGHZ2013	262.010:nán 262.080:nàn
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"难" U+96BE CJK Unified Ideograph-# "難" U+96E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0817.010:nán 0818.040:nàn