U+973B "霻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+973B "霻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that falls under the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block, meaning it is part of the set of Han characters used in traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing, though it is not commonly used in modern texts. Composed of the "rain" radical (雨) as its top component, which often relates to weather or atmospheric phenomena, combined with other elements such as "丰" (abundant or lush), the character can be interpreted as meaning a type of thunder or a sudden, powerful sound associated with rainstorms. Its overall form suggests a connection to natural forces like thunder or a stormy sky, reflecting the semantic richness of older, less common CJK characters that often describe specific natural events or qualities.

General Properties

Code Point U+973B
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 霻
HTML Hex Encoding 霻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x9C 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x973B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000973B
C/C++/Java Escape \u973b

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 234C60
kCNS1986 E-666E
kCNS1992 3-666E
kCangjie MBTWT
kCantonese fung1
kDaeJaweon 1889.180
kHanYu 64080.101
kIBMJapan FBEE
kIRGDaeJaweon 1889.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64080.101
kIRGKangXi 1379.201
kIRG_GSource GE-5360
kIRG_JSource J3-7D67
kIRG_TSource T3-666E
kJapanese フウ フ ホウ
kJIS0213 1,93,71
kKangXi 1379.201
kMandarin fēng
kMojiJoho MJ027869
kMorohashi 42545
kPhonetic 771*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8691+173.8.13
kRSUnicode 173.13
kTotalStrokes 21