U+96F9 "雹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
雹
U+96F9 "雹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents "hail," referring to the icy precipitation that falls during certain storms. It is composed of the radical for rain (雨) at the top, indicating its meteorological association, and the phonetic component 包 below, which suggests the sound but also contributes a sense of something wrapped or enclosed, alluding to the layered structure of hailstones. This character is used in modern Chinese and Japanese writing systems, appearing in contexts such as weather reports, literature describing natural phenomena, and classical texts where it can also metaphorically denote sudden calamity or bombardment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+96F9 |
| 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 | 雹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 雹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9B 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x96F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000096F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u96f9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B972 |
| kCCCII | 215F57 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-675A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-675A |
| kCangjie | MBPRU |
| kCantonese | bok6 |
| kCihaiT | 1450.501 |
| kCowles | 3363 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1882.030 |
| kDefinition | hail |
| kEACC | 215F57 |
| kFanqie | 蒲角 |
| kFenn | 225D |
| kFennIndex | 386.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1071.2 |
| kGB0 | 1702 |
| kGB1 | 1702 |
| kGSR | 1113n |
| kHangul | 박:0N |
| kHanYu | 64061.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | báo(15) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64061.050:báo |
| kHKGlyph | 4432 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1882.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64061.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1372.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3122 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B972 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-703B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DCE7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5A5F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-675A |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-912F |
| kJapanese | ハク ホク バク ボク ひょう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2887 |
| kJapaneseKun | HYOU |
| kJapaneseOn | HAKU HOKU |
| kJis0 | 8027 |
| kKangXi | 1372.260 |
| kKorean | PAK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7192 |
| kMandarin | báo |
| kMatthews | 5338 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2450 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027793 MJ027793:E0101 MJ027794:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 42248 42248:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5047 |
| kPhonetic | 1011 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7124+173.8.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 173.5 |
| kSBGY | 465.54 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 760.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | báo粵bok6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7192 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 012.100:báo |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 257:046 |
| kXHC1983 | 0037.080:báo |