U+98B4 "颴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+98B4 "颴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that belongs to the traditional CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideograph set, primarily used in historical or classical texts. It is composed of the radical for wind (風) and a phonetic component, and its pronunciation is generally given as "xuàn" in Mandarin Chinese. The character’s meaning is associated with a swirling or whirling wind, often denoting a strong gust or a small cyclone. Due to its obscurity, it is rarely encountered in modern everyday writing, but it may appear in specialized dictionaries, ancient poetry, or literary descriptions of weather phenomena.

General Properties

Code Point U+98B4
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 颴
HTML Hex Encoding 颴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA2 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x98B4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000098B4
C/C++/Java Escape \u98b4

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 235040
kCangjie HNONO
kCantonese syun4
kDaeJaweon 1934.270
kDefinition whirlwind
kEACC 235040
kHanYu 74485.210
kHanyuPinyin 74485.210:xuàn
kIRGDaeJaweon 1934.270
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74485.210
kIRGKangXi 1412.470
kIRG_GSource GE-5444
kIRG_HSource H-9FE0
kIRG_JSource J1-683E
kIRG_KPSource KP1-87B3
kJapanese セン ゼン
kJapaneseKun TSUMUJIKAZE
kJapaneseOn SEN ZEN
kJis1 7230
kKangXi 1412.470
kMandarin xuàn
kMojiJoho MJ028306
kMorohashi 43842
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19987+182.9.7
kRSUnicode 182.7
kSimplifiedVariant "𬱽" U+2CC7D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 H