U+97B7 "鞷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+97B7 "鞷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character traditionally classified under the radical for leather or hide (革) and is associated with the meaning of a type of drum or a leather-covered vessel, often linked to ancient ritual or musical instruments. Its structure combines the leather radical with components suggesting sound or a container, and it appears in classical texts such as the Erya or certain historical dictionaries where it denotes an object used in ceremonial contexts. Despite its limited modern usage, the character represents a specialized artifact from early Chinese material culture, preserved in the Unicode standard to ensure digital representation of obscure historical characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+97B7
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	鞷
HTML Hex Encoding	鞷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9E 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x97B7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000097B7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u97b7

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	F3A2
kCCCII	256526
kCNS1986	2-676D
kCNS1992	2-676D
kCangjie	MRBJ
kCantonese	lik6
kCihaiT	1469.205
kFourCornerCode	1040.6
kHanYu	74346.070
kHanyuPinyin	74346.070:gé
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74346.070
kIRGKangXi	1391.071
kIRG_GSource	GE-5378
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F3A2
kIRG_TSource	T2-676D
kKangXi	1391.071
kMandarin	gé
kPhonetic	542*
kRSUnicode	177.10
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HMT