U+9785 "鞅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9785 "鞅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in East Asian writing systems, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Japanese and Korean. It carries the meanings of a horse's martingale, a part of the harness placed under a horse's neck, or more broadly, a yoke or a state of being constrained or encumbered. In classical and modern contexts, it can appear in compound terms such as "鞅掌" (to be overwhelmed with busy work) or in historical references to political figures like Shang Yang (商鞅), the ancient Chinese legalist reformer. The character's composition involves the radical for leather (革) on the left, indicating its material association with horse gear, and the phonetic component "央" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation (yāng in Mandarin).

General Properties

Code Point	U+9785
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	鞅
HTML Hex Encoding	鞅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9E 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9785
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009785
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9785

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	BBDF
kCCCII	215F7E
kCNS1986	1-6B68
kCNS1992	1-6B68
kCangjie	TJLBK
kCantonese	joeng1
kCihaiT	1466.605
kDaeJaweon	1901.170
kDefinition	leather strap over horse's neck
kEACC	215F7E
kFanqie	於兩
kFourCornerCode	4553.0
kGB0	8717
kGB1	8717
kGSR	0718f
kHangul	앙:1N
kHanYu	74331.010
kHanyuPinyin	74331.010:yāng,yǎng,yàng
kHKGlyph	4471
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	1901.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74331.010
kIRGKangXi	1386.410
kIRG_GSource	G0-7731
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BBDF
kIRG_JSource	J0-7059
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-855B
kIRG_KSource	K1-6653
kIRG_TSource	T1-6B68
kIRG_VSource	V1-6B62
kJapanese	オウ ヨウ むながい
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:5647
kJapaneseKun	MUNAGAI HARAOBI URAMU
kJapaneseOn	OU YOU
kJis0	8057
kKangXi	1386.410
kKorean	ANG
kMainlandTelegraph	7248
kMandarin	yāng
kMatthews	7245
kMeyerWempe	3881a
kMojiJoho	MJ027972
kMorohashi	42784
kNelson	5094
kPhonetic	1528
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7154+177.9.5
kRSUnicode	177.5
kSBGY	310.44
kSMSZD2003Index	766.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	yāng,yǎng粵joeng2,joeng1 yàng粵joeng2
kTaiwanTelegraph	7248
kTGHZ2013	425.060:yāng 426.140:yàng
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kVietnamese	óng
kXerox	267:247
kXHC1983	1333.080:yāng 1339.030:yàng