U+978C "鞌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鞌

U+978C "鞌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character (hanzi) that historically means a saddle, specifically the type used on a horse for riding. It is composed of the radical 革 (ge, meaning leather or hide) and the phonetic component 安 (an, meaning peace or safety), reflecting both its material and its function in securing the rider. This character appears in classical Chinese texts but is largely archaic in modern usage, having been replaced by the simpler and more common variant 鞍 (ān). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it represents a specific instance of script unification across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, though its actual use is rare in contemporary contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+978C
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	鞌
HTML Hex Encoding	鞌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9E 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x978C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000978C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u978c

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	234D44
kCNS1986	E-4F64
kCNS1992	3-4F64
kCangjie	JVTJ
kCantonese	on1
kCihaiT	1467.202
kCowles	3109
kDaeJaweon	1902.040
kDefinition	saddle; any saddle-shaped object
kEACC	2D6021
kFanqie	烏寒
kHanYu	74335.090
kIRGDaeJaweon	1902.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74335.090
kIRGKangXi	1387.230
kIRG_GSource	GE-5371
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-027980
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-856C
kIRG_KSource	K2-6C6F
kIRG_TSource	T3-4F64
kJapanese	アンくら
kKangXi	1387.230
kMandarin	ān
kMojiJoho	MJ027980
kMorohashi	42814
kPhonetic	995
kRSUnicode	177.6
kSBGY	121.26
kSemanticVariant	U+978D<kSMSZD2003Index:TZ
kSMSZD2003Index	766.14
kTaiwanTelegraph	9454
kTotalStrokes	15
kXerox	323:052
kXHC1983	0007.020:ān