U+979E "鞞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鞞

U+979E "鞞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph primarily associated with historical weaponry and military equipment, specifically referring to a type of leather scabbard or sheath used for holding a sword or blade, often depicted as a decorative or functional covering. Its usage appears in classical Chinese texts and is referenced in ancient dictionaries like the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is described as a "sword sheath" made of leather, sometimes also interpreted as a drum or a covering for a drum in certain contexts. The character is composed of the radical for "leather" (革) on the left and the phonetic component "卑" (meaning low or humble) on the right, reflecting its construction as a phono-semantic compound. While rare in modern everyday Chinese, it remains a specialized term in historical studies, martial arts literature, and linguistic analysis of archaic weaponry terms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+979E
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	鞞
HTML Hex Encoding	鞞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9E 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x979E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000979E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u979e

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	EF40
kCCCII	234D63
kCNS1986	2-604C
kCNS1992	2-604C
kCangjie	TJHHJ
kCantonese	bing2
kCihaiT	1468.204
kDaeJaweon	1903.280
kDefinition	sheath
kFanqie	府移部迷并弭補鼎
kFourCornerCode	4654.0
kGB3	8931
kGSR	0874x
kHanYu	74339.110
kHanyuPinyin	74339.110:bǐng,bì,pí,bēi
kIRGDaeJaweon	1903.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74339.110
kIRGKangXi	1388.440
kIRG_GSource	G3-793F
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EF40
kIRG_JSource	J14-7C26
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8588
kIRG_KSource	K2-6C79
kIRG_TSource	T2-604C
kJapanese	ヘイヒョウヒビベイさや
kJIS0213	2,92,06
kJapaneseKun	SAYA
kJapaneseOn	HEI HYOU HI BI BAI
kJis1	7141
kKangXi	1388.440
kMandarin	bǐng
kMojiJoho	MJ027999
kMorohashi	42889
kPhonetic	1029
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18920+177.9.8
kRSUnicode	177.8
kSBGY	047.11 090.38 245.02 320.29
kSMSZD2003Index	766.20
kSMSZD2003Readings	bǐ,bǐng粵bei2,bing2
kTaiwanTelegraph	7260
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	314:275
kXHC1983	0078.010:bǐng