U+97BA "鞺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鞺
U+97BA "鞺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that historically belongs to the realm of classical or archaic vocabulary, primarily associated with the sound of drums or a drumming noise, as seen in ancient texts. Its structure combines the radical for leather or hide (革) with a phonetic component, reflecting its connection to drum skins and percussion. Due to its obscurity, it is seldom used in modern Chinese writing, often appearing only in specialized literary or historical contexts, where it evokes the resonant, rhythmic beat of ceremonial or military drums from early Chinese culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+97BA |
| 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 | 鞺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鞺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9E 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x97BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000097BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u97ba |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 234E2C |
| kCNS1986 | E-5D51 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-5D51 |
| kCangjie | TJFBG |
| kCantonese | tong1 |
| kCihaiT | 1469.304 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1906.020 |
| kDefinition | the sound of drums |
| kHanYu | 74348.170 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74348.170:tāng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1906.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74348.170 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1391.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5379 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9F7C |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7D70 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-85DB |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6D26 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-5D51 |
| kJapanese | トウ |
| kJIS0213 | 1,93,80 |
| kJapaneseOn | TOU |
| kJis1 | 7152 |
| kKangXi | 1391.150 |
| kMandarin | tāng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028029 |
| kMorohashi | 42997 |
| kNelson | 5106 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17190+177.9.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 177.11 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |