U+9740 "靀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9740 "靀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character used in classical and historical texts, primarily representing the concept of a light rain or drizzle. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses shared traditional characters from these languages. Composed of the radical for rain, 雨, combined with the phonetic component 蒙, its structure visually conveys the idea of misty or fine precipitation. Although not commonly encountered in modern writing, it appears in specialized lexicons and ancient literature, demonstrating the depth and nuance of East Asian logographic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9740
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	靀
HTML Hex Encoding	靀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9D 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9740
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009740
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9740

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	234C67
kCNS1986	E-5F72
kCNS1992	3-5F72
kCangjie	MBTBO
kCantonese	mung4
kDaeJaweon	1889.160
kDefinition	drizzling, fine rain; mist
kGB5	8379
kHanYu	64080.060
kHanyuPinyin	64080.060:méng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1889.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64080.060
kIRGKangXi	1380.020
kIRG_GSource	G5-736F
kIRG_HSource	H-9A5B
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-027874
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-84BF
kIRG_TSource	T3-5F72
kIRG_VSource	V1-6B5C
kJapanese	ボウ モ
kKangXi	1380.020
kMandarin	méng
kMatthews	4442
kMojiJoho	MJ027874
kMorohashi	42509
kPhonetic	935*
kRSUnicode	173.14
kSBGY	030.06
kSemanticVariant	U+6FDB<kMatthews
kTaiwanTelegraph	7222
kTotalStrokes	21
kUnihanCore2020	H
kVietnamese	mống
kXerox	314:267