U+989A "颚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
颚
U+989A "颚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the jaw or the roof of the mouth, often used in anatomy to denote the maxilla or mandible. It is composed of radical components related to the face or skull, and it appears in compound words like "上颚" (upper jaw) or "下颚" (lower jaw), as well as in technical or biological contexts. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is used in both modern and classical texts across these languages to describe oral and cranial structures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+989A |
| 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 | 颚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 颚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x989A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000989A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u989a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276051 |
| kCangjie | RSMBO |
| kCantonese | ngok6 |
| kDefinition | jaw |
| kEACC | 276051 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6128 |
| kGB0 | 8206 |
| kHanYu | 74382.051 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74382.051 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1410.451 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7226 |
| kTGH | 2013:5931 |
| kKangXi | 1410.451 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7329 |
| kMandarin | è |
| kRSUnicode | 181'.9 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 087.210:è |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "顎" U+984E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0284.150:è |