U+978D "鞍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鞍
U+978D "鞍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "saddle" and is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It combines the radical for "leather" or "hide" on the left side with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its historical association with horse riding equipment. This character appears in classical texts and modern vocabulary, often in compound words related to saddles, saddlery, or metaphorical uses such as describing burdens or support. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a standardized form for digital text across different writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+978D |
| 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 | 鞍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鞍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9E 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x978D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000978D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u978d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BE62 |
| kCCCII | 216021 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6F6B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6F6B |
| kCangjie | TJJV |
| kCantonese | on1 |
| kCihaiT | 1467.401 |
| kCowles | 3108 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1902.050 |
| kDefinition | saddle; any saddle-shaped object |
| kEACC | 216021 |
| kFanqie | 烏寒 |
| kFenn | 555D |
| kFennIndex | 3.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4354.4 |
| kGB0 | 1616 |
| kGB1 | 1616 |
| kHangul | 안:0N |
| kHanYu | 74335.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74335.080:ān |
| kHKGlyph | 4472 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1902.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74335.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1387.240 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3030 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BE62 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3048 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7C5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6453 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6F6B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6B64 |
| kJapanese | アン くら |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3208 |
| kJapaneseKun | KURA |
| kJapaneseOn | AN |
| kJis0 | 1640 |
| kKangXi | 1387.240 |
| kKarlgren | 4 |
| kKorean | AN |
| kLau | 2430 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7254 |
| kMandarin | ān |
| kMatthews | 29 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2154 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027981 |
| kMorohashi | 42815 |
| kNelson | 5098 |
| kPhonetic | 995* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1164+177.9.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 177.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+978C<kSMSZD2003Index:T |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 766.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ān粵on1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7254 |
| kTang | *qɑn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 003.140:ān |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | yên |
| kXerox | 257:173 |
| kXHC1983 | 0007.010:ān |