U+9885 "颅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9885 "颅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of the skull or cranium, specifically referring to the bony structure that encloses the brain. It is commonly used in medical and anatomical contexts, as well as in everyday language to denote the head or its upper part, often appearing in compound words such as "头颅" for "head" or "颅骨" for "skull bone." This ideograph is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, and its stroke-based form reflects its ancient origins in pictographic and ideographic traditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9885
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	颅
HTML Hex Encoding	颅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA2 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9885
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009885
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9885

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	276059
kCangjie	YSMBO
kCantonese	lou4
kDefinition	skull
kEACC	276059
kFourCornerCode	2128
kGB0	3413
kHanYu	74364.130
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74364.130
kIRGKangXi	1410.451
kIRG_GSource	G0-422D
kTGH	2013:2252
kKangXi	1410.451
kMainlandTelegraph	7361
kMandarin	lú
kPhonetic	820A*
kRSUnicode	181'.5
kSMSZD2003Index	772.02
kTGHZ2013	233.010:lú
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"顱" U+9871 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0736.070:lú