U+98A3 "颣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
颣
U+98A3 "颣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily means a flaw, defect, or blemish, often in the context of silk or fabric, though it can also connote something uneven or improper. This character is composed of the radical for "head" or "page" (頁) and other elements that suggest deviation from the norm, and it appears in classical Chinese texts rather than modern everyday usage. Its inclusion in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block allows for standardized representation across digital systems, preserving an ancient term for imperfection that is seldom seen in contemporary writing but valued in historical and literary studies for describing subtle deficiencies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+98A3 |
| 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 | 颣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 颣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA2 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x98A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000098A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u98a3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | FFMBO |
| kCantonese | leoi6 |
| kDefinition | knot; blemish, flaw, wicked |
| kGB8 | 9390 |
| kHanYu | 74392.091 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74392.091 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1410.451 |
| kIRG_GSource | G8-7D7A |
| kKangXi | 1410.451 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4955 |
| kMandarin | lèi |
| kRSUnicode | 181'.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 531.09 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "纇" U+7E87 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kXHC1983 | 0687.010:lèi |