U+97A9 "鞩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+97A9 "鞩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character composed of the radical 革 (leather) on the left and 肖 (xiao) on the right, suggesting a meaning related to leather or a belt-like object, though it is not a common character in modern Chinese or Japanese. In historical contexts, it appears in some classical texts or specialized dictionaries as a variant of other characters, often associated with the concept of a scabbard or a thong. Its usage is extremely limited today, making it more of a linguistic curiosity encountered primarily in Unicode databases or academic studies of archaic or obscure sinographs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+97A9
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	鞩
HTML Hex Encoding	鞩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9E 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x97A9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000097A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u97a9

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	256471
kCNS1986	E-5950
kCNS1992	3-5950
kCangjie	TJFBN
kCantonese	ciu3
kDaeJaweon	1905.060
kHanYu	74342.140
kIRGDaeJaweon	1905.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74342.140
kIRGKangXi	1389.310
kIRG_GSource	GE-5376
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-028011
kIRG_TSource	T3-5950
kJapanese	ショウ
kKangXi	1389.310
kMandarin	qiào
kMojiJoho	MJ028011
kMorohashi	42952
kPhonetic	1158*
kRSUnicode	177.9
kTotalStrokes	18