U+989E "颞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+989E "颞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that refers to the temple region of the head, specifically the area on the sides of the skull near the ears. It is composed of a "页" (page or head) radical on the right, which relates to the head or face, and a complex phonetic component on the left, "聂" (niè), which hints at its pronunciation. This character is used in modern Chinese and Japanese (as a kanji) in anatomical and medical contexts, such as in the term "颞骨" (temporal bone) or "颞叶" (temporal lobe of the brain), contributing to precise descriptions of cranial anatomy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+989E
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	颞
HTML Hex Encoding	颞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA2 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x989E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000989E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u989e

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	295030
kCangjie	SEMBO
kCantonese	nip6
kDefinition	the temporal bone
kEACC	295030
kFourCornerCode	1148.2
kGB0	8208
kHanYu	74385.020
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74385.020
kIRGKangXi	1410.451
kIRG_GSource	G0-7228
kTGH	2013:6045
kKangXi	1410.451
kMandarin	niè
kPhonetic	979*
kRSUnicode	181'.10
kSMSZD2003Index	775.04
kTGHZ2013	267.190:niè
kTotalStrokes	16
kTraditionalVariant	"顳" U+9873 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0834.050:niè