U+989A "颚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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