U+97C2 "韂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+97C2 "韂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in literary and historical contexts, primarily meaning a "saddle blanket" or "saddle cloth," referring to a protective covering placed under a horse's saddle. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, encoded for compatibility across East Asian writing systems. Its composition reflects its semantic connection to leather or hide, due to the radical "革" (leather) on the left, while the phonetic component on the right provides a clue to its pronunciation in Mandarin, which is approximately "chàn." Although rare in modern everyday usage, it appears in classical texts, equestrian terminology, and historical records, preserving a specialized aspect of material culture related to horsemanship.

General Properties

Code Point	U+97C2
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	韂
HTML Hex Encoding	韂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9F 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x97C2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000097C2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u97c2

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	234E3A
kCangjie	TJNCR
kCantonese	cim3
kDaeJaweon	1906.430
kDefinition	a saddle-flap; trappings
kFanqie	昌豔
kFenn	741K
kFennIndex	14.09
kFourCornerCode	4756.1
kGB3	8957
kHanYu	74351.160
kHanyuPinyin	74351.160:chàn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1906.430
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74351.160
kIRGKangXi	1392.090
kIRG_GSource	G3-7959
kIRG_HSource	H-9A5E
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-028039
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-85EE
kIRG_KSource	K2-6D2B
kIRG_TSource	T4-695E
kJapanese	セン
kTGH	2013:8088
kKangXi	1392.090
kMandarin	chàn
kMatthews	168
kMojiJoho	MJ028039
kMorohashi	43049
kPhonetic	179*
kRSUnicode	177.13
kSBGY	444.15
kSemanticVariant	U+4A5E<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	767.20
kSMSZD2003Readings	chàn粵cim3
kTGHZ2013	038.030:chàn
kTotalStrokes	22
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	0120.030:chàn