U+96FC "雼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+96FC "雼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character that appears in classical texts, primarily associated with the Kangxi Dictionary. It is composed of the "rain" radical (雨) on top and the phonetic component "宊" below, and its pronunciation is generally reconstructed as "dàng" in modern Mandarin. The character's meaning is somewhat ambiguous but is often interpreted as "to drip" or "to seep slowly," possibly related to the concept of rain or liquid passing through a vessel. Due to its extreme rarity, it is not used in contemporary Chinese writing and appears mainly in historical linguistic studies or specialized digital character databases.

General Properties

Code Point	U+96FC
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	雼
HTML Hex Encoding	雼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9B 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x96FC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000096FC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u96fc

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	25612D
kCNS1986	E-4547
kCNS1992	3-4547
kCangjie	MBMR
kCantonese	dong6
kDaeJaweon	1882.100
kHanYu	64059.170
kHanyuPinyin	64059.170:dàng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1882.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64059.170
kIRGKangXi	1373.090
kIRG_GSource	GE-5350
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-027797
kIRG_TSource	T3-4547
kJapanese	トウ ドウ
kKangXi	1373.090
kMandarin	dàng
kMojiJoho	MJ027797
kMorohashi	42256
kRSUnicode	173.5
kTotalStrokes	13