U+9889 "颉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
颉
U+9889 "颉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, as well as in Japanese Kanji, where it primarily carries the meaning of "to fly upward" or "to ascend," and is often associated with the idea of moving swiftly or soaring. It is a compound character, typically formed from the radical for "page" or "head" (頁, yè) combined with a phonetic component, and appears in classical texts and modern vocabulary, such as in the term "颉颃" (xié háng), which describes a bird flying or, metaphorically, to contend or be in rivalry. In Unicode, it is encoded within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a standard logogram used across East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9889 |
| 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 | 颉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 颉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA2 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9889 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009889 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9889 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276045 |
| kCangjie | GRMBO |
| kCantonese | kit3 |
| kDefinition | fly upward, soar; contest |
| kEACC | 276045 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4168 |
| kGB0 | 8201 |
| kHanYu | 74367.070 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74367.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1410.451 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7221 |
| kTGH | 2013:5067 |
| kKangXi | 1410.451 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7327 |
| kMandarin | jié |
| kRSUnicode | 181'.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 173.130:jié 405.080:xié |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "頡" U+9821 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0576.110:jié 1274.060:xié |