U+973E "霾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

霾

U+973E "霾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character whose primary meaning is "haze" or "dust storm," specifically referring to a thick, obscuring atmospheric condition caused by fine particulate matter such as dust, smoke, or other pollutants. This character combines the "rain" radical (雨) with the phonetic component "貍" (li, meaning "wildcat"), and it is most commonly used in modern Mandarin to describe the severe smog or haze events that frequently affect urban areas, especially in northern China. Beyond its weather-related usage, "霾" also carries classical connotations of gloom or obscurity, metaphorically representing confusion or a veiling of clarity. Thus, this ideograph encapsulates both a literal environmental phenomenon and a broader symbolic sense of concealment or murkiness.

General Properties

Code Point	U+973E
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	霾
HTML Hex Encoding	霾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9C 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x973E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000973E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u973e

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	C5B5
kCCCII	215F6C
kCNS1986	1-7C21
kCNS1992	1-7C21
kCangjie	MBBHG
kCantonese	maai4
kCihaiT	1458.104
kDaeJaweon	1889.140
kDefinition	misty, foggy; dust storm
kEACC	215F6C
kFanqie	莫皆
kFourCornerCode	1021.4
kGB0	8618
kGB1	8618
kGSR	0978n
kHanYu	64081.070
kHanyuPinyin	64081.070:mái,lí
kHKGlyph	4453
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	1889.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64081.070
kIRGKangXi	1379.300
kIRG_GSource	G0-7632
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C5B5
kIRG_JSource	J0-704A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-84C0
kIRG_KSource	K2-6C51
kIRG_TSource	T1-7C21
kJapanese	バイマイメ
kTGH	2013:6468
kJapaneseKun	TSUCHIFURU TSUCHIGUMORI
kJapaneseOn	BAI
kJis0	8042
kKangXi	1379.300
kKorean	MAY
kMainlandTelegraph	7223
kMandarin	mái
kMatthews	4321
kMeyerWempe	1762a
kMojiJoho	MJ027872
kMorohashi	42507
kPhonetic	789A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7139+173.8.14
kRSUnicode	173.14
kSBGY	095.26
kSMSZD2003Index	762.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	mái粵maai4,mai4
kTaiwanTelegraph	7223
kTang	mæi
kTGHZ2013	241.090:mái
kTotalStrokes	22
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	273:373
kXHC1983	0759.010:mái