U+988C "颌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+988C "颌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in modern and classical texts, where it represents the meaning of the jaw or chin, referring to the lower part of the face that holds the teeth. It is composed of the radical 页, which relates to the head or neck, and a phonetic component that influences its pronunciation, often sounding like "hé" in Mandarin. This character appears in medical contexts describing the mandible or maxilla, as well as in everyday language for terms like "下颌" meaning lower jaw. Its structure and usage align with the principles of Chinese character formation, where semantic and phonetic elements combine to convey both meaning and sound, making it a functional part of written Chinese for describing facial anatomy.

General Properties

Code Point U+988C
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 颌
HTML Hex Encoding 颌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA2 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x988C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000988C
C/C++/Java Escape \u988c

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

kCangjie XORMB
kCantonese hap6
kDefinition mouth; jaw
kEACC 4D4F39
kFourCornerCode 8168
kGB0 8202
kHanYu 74369.010
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74369.010
kIRGKangXi 1410.451
kIRG_GSource G0-7222
kTGH 2013:5221
kKangXi 1410.451
kMainlandTelegraph 9577
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 181'.6
kTGHZ2013 135.010:hé
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "頜" U+981C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0372.020:gé 0453.010:hé