U+9896 "颖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9896 "颖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes something pointed, sharp, or tapering, such as the tip of a grain head, and by extension carries connotations of cleverness, brilliance, or outstanding ability, as seen in words like "聪颖" meaning intelligent or gifted. Its structure combines the radical for grain or rice on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting both its agricultural roots and its broader use in Chinese and Japanese kanji to describe sharp insight or physical shape.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9896
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	颖
HTML Hex Encoding	颖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA2 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9896
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009896
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9896

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	454F45
kCangjie	PDMBO
kCantonese	wing6
kDefinition	rice tassel; sharp point; clever
kEACC	454F45
kFourCornerCode	2198
kGB0	5117
kHanYu	74376.040
kHanyuPinlu	yǐng(11)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74376.040
kIRGKangXi	1410.451
kIRG_GSource	G0-5331
kTGH	2013:2979
kKangXi	1410.451
kMainlandTelegraph	4481
kMandarin	yǐng
kPhonetic	628*
kRSUnicode	181'.7
kTGHZ2013	440.120:yǐng
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"穎" U+7A4E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1388.020:yǐng