U+97AD "鞭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+97AD "鞭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "whip" or "lash," referring to a flexible implement used for striking or urging animals forward, and it also carries extended meanings such as "to flog" or "a鞭 (a type of weapon or tool)." In classical and modern Chinese, this character appears in compounds like "鞭子" (whip or whip-like object), "鞭炮" (firecrackers, literally "whip-cannon" from their crackling sound), and "鞭策" (to spur on or urge, metaphorically using a whip to motivate). The character is composed of the radical 革 (leather) on the left, indicating its material association with leather or hide, and the phonetic component 便 on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation (biān in Mandarin). It is a commonly used character in both literary and everyday contexts, reflecting physical objects as well as figurative notions of discipline, drive, or punishment.

General Properties

Code Point U+97AD
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 鞭
HTML Hex Encoding 鞭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x9E 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x97AD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000097AD
C/C++/Java Escape \u97ad

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 C340
kCCCII 216028
kCNS1986 1-776A
kCNS1992 1-776A
kCangjie TJOMK
kCantonese bin1
kCihaiT 1468.401
kCowles 3288
kDaeJaweon 1904.300
kDefinition whip; whip; string of firecrackers
kEACC 216028
kFanqie 卑連
kFenn 834C
kFennIndex 408.05
kFourCornerCode 4154.6
kGB0 1762
kGB1 1762
kGradeLevel 4
kGSR 0221c
kHangul 편:0N
kHanYu 74343.060
kHanyuPinlu biān(48)
kHanyuPinyin 74343.060:biān
kHKGlyph 4479
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1904.300
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74343.060
kIRGKangXi 1390.090
kIRG_GSource G0-315E
kIRG_HSource HB1-C340
kIRG_JSource J0-4A5C
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F1B1
kIRG_KSource K0-783D
kIRG_TSource T1-776A
kJapanese ベン むち むちうつ
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:3438
kJapaneseKun MUCHI MUCHIUTSU
kJapaneseOn HEN BEN
kJis0 4260
kKangXi 1390.090
kKorean PHYEN
kLau 95
kMainlandTelegraph 7267
kMandarin biān
kMatthews 5227
kMeyerWempe 2356
kMojiJoho MJ028016 MJ028015:E0102 MJ028016:E0103
kMorohashi 42937 42937:E0103
kNelson 5104
kPhonetic 1047
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3628+177.9.9 V+20291+177.9.9
kRSUnicode 177.9
kSBGY 141.30
kSMSZD2003Index 767.09
kSMSZD2003Readings biān粵bin1
kTaiwanTelegraph 7267
kTang *biɛn
kTGHZ2013 021.040:biān
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 255:113
kXHC1983 0063.010:biān