U+96CC "雌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+96CC "雌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that fundamentally denotes the female sex in animals, including humans, and is often translated as "female," "feminine," or "she." It is composed of the radical 隹 (zhuī), representing a short-tailed bird, combined with the phonetic component 此 (cǐ, meaning "this"), and it appears with this meaning across multiple East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In classical and modern usage, it forms the core of words like 雌性 (cíxìng, "female sex") and contrasts with the male counterpart 雄 (xióng), and it also appears in specialized biological terms such as 雌蕊 (círuǐ, "pistil," the female reproductive part of a flower).

General Properties

Code Point	U+96CC
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	雌
HTML Hex Encoding	雌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9B 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x96CC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000096CC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u96cc

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

kBigFive	BBDB
kCCCII	215F48
kCNS1986	1-6B64
kCNS1992	1-6B64
kCangjie	YMPOG
kCantonese	ci1
kCihaiT	1439.401
kDaeJaweon	1871.020
kDefinition	female; feminine; gentle, soft
kEACC	215F48
kFanqie	此移
kFenn	129H
kFennIndex	588.03
kFourCornerCode	2011.4
kGB0	2038
kGB1	2038
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0358f
kHangul	자:0N
kHanYu	64098.180
kHanyuPinlu	cí(22)
kHanyuPinyin	64098.180:cí
kHKGlyph	4417
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1871.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64098.180
kIRGKangXi	1366.110
kIRG_GSource	G0-3446
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BBDB
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B73
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E6C3
kIRG_KSource	K0-6D41
kIRG_TSource	T1-6B64
kJapanese	シ セイ サイ め めす
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:3098
kJapaneseKun	MESU ME
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	2783
kKangXi	1366.110
kKorean	CA
kLau	278
kMainlandTelegraph	7166
kMandarin	cí
kMatthews	6979
kMeyerWempe	3543b
kMojiJoho	MJ027732 MJ027731:E0101 MJ027732:E0102
kMorohashi	41998 41998:E0102
kNelson	2435
kPhonetic	156
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2241+172.8.6
kRSUnicode	172.5
kSBGY	048.53
kSMSZD2003Index	758.01 344.02
kSMSZD2003Readings	cí,cī粵ci1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7166
kTang	tsiɛ
kTGHZ2013	055.110:cí
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	thư
kXerox	256:301
kXHC1983	0174.030:cí