U+9713 "霓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
霓
U+9713 "霓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a secondary rainbow or a rainbow with faint colors, often specifically denoting the outer or fainter arc of a double rainbow. In traditional Chinese culture and literature, it appears in words like "霓虹" meaning rainbow or neon, and it is also found in classical poetry and idioms to describe beautiful, colorful, or ethereal phenomena. The character is composed of the rain radical 雨 on top and the phonetic component 兒, and it is used in modern and historical contexts across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9713 |
| 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 | 霓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 霓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9C 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9713 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009713 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9713 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C04F |
| kCCCII | 215F63 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7278 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7278 |
| kCangjie | MBHXU |
| kCantonese | ngai4 |
| kCihaiT | 1455.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1884.290 |
| kDefinition | rainbow; variegated, colored |
| kEACC | 215F63 |
| kFanqie | 五稽 五計 五結 |
| kFenn | 684I |
| kFennIndex | 360.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1021.7 |
| kGB0 | 3662 |
| kGB1 | 3662 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 0873m |
| kHangul | 예:0N |
| kHanYu | 64067.160 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64067.160:ní |
| kHKGlyph | 4443 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1884.290 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64067.160 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1375.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-445E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C04F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-703F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FDB8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6767 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7278 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6B56 |
| kJapanese | ゲイ ゲツ ゲチ ゲキ ギャク にじ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6078 |
| kJapaneseKun | NIJI |
| kJapaneseOn | GEI |
| kJis0 | 8031 |
| kKangXi | 1375.290 |
| kKarlgren | 12 |
| kKorean | YEY |
| kLau | 2327 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7206 |
| kMandarin | ní |
| kMatthews | 4666 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2030b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027822 MJ027822:E0101 MJ027823:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 42332 42332:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5057 |
| kPhonetic | 1544 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7128+173.8.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 173.8 |
| kSBGY | 089.47 372.41 494.43 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 761.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ní粵ngai4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7206 |
| kTang | *ngei |
| kTGHZ2013 | 265.040:ní |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nghi |
| kXerox | 264:163 |
| kXHC1983 | 0826.070:ní |