U+989C "颜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+989C "颜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (simplified form) that primarily means "face," "countenance," or "color," and it is also used in compounds such as "颜色" meaning "color" or "颜面" meaning "face" or "prestige." It commonly appears in names and everyday vocabulary, and it originates from Classic Chinese etymological roots related to facial appearance, often paired with the concept of honor or social standing. In Unicode, this character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, allowing it to be used across digital platforms for writing modern Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and sometimes Korean text.

General Properties

Code Point U+989C
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 颜
HTML Hex Encoding 颜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA2 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x989C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000989C
C/C++/Java Escape \u989c

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 27604E
kCangjie YHMBO
kCantonese ngaan4
kDefinition face, facial appearance
kEACC 27604E
kFourCornerCode 0128
kGB0 4953
kHanYu 74383.100
kHanyuPinlu yán(132)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74383.100
kIRGKangXi 1410.451
kIRG_GSource G0-5155
kTGH 2013:3285
kKangXi 1410.451
kMainlandTelegraph 7346
kMandarin yán
kRSUnicode 181'.9
kTGHZ2013 422.160:yán
kTotalStrokes 15
kTraditionalVariant "顏" U+984F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"顔" U+9854 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1324.030:yán