U+9996 "首" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
首
U+9996 "首" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram that represents the concept of a head or leader, originating from ancient Chinese script where it pictorially depicts a head with hair. In modern usage, this character carries meanings including "first," "chief," or "beginning," and appears in common compounds such as 首都 meaning capital city and 首相 meaning prime minister. Its stroke count is nine, and it belongs to the radical 首 (head) which also serves as the character's semantic component. The glyph structure combines a stylized hair motif with the radical for a face or head, reflecting its etymological roots in physical anatomy while extending to metaphorical senses of priority and authority in East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9996 |
| 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 | 首 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 首 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9996 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009996 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9996 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ADBA |
| kCCCII | 216128 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-537B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-537B |
| kCangjie | THBU |
| kCantonese | sau2 |
| kCihaiT | 1495.204 |
| kCowles | 3860 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1953.270 |
| kDefinition | head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185 |
| kEACC | 216128 |
| kFanqie | 書九 舒救 |
| kFenn | 855C |
| kFennIndex | 458.04 459.01 460.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8060.1 |
| kGB0 | 4255 |
| kGB1 | 4255 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1102a |
| kHangul | 수:0E |
| kHanYu | 74500.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shǒu(492) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74500.010:shǒu |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾸[U+2FB8]:74500.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 4571 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1953.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74500.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.320 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A57 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ADBA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C73 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4B6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-624F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-537B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6C36 |
| kJapanese | シュ シュウ くび おさ こうべ はじめ はじめる おびと しるし |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1651 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUBI KOUBE SHIRUSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHU SHUU |
| kJis0 | 2883 |
| kKangXi | 1427.320 |
| kKorean | SWU |
| kLau | 2685 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7445 |
| kMandarin | shǒu |
| kMatthews | 5839 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2650 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028594 |
| kMorohashi | 44489 |
| kNelson | 5186 |
| kPhonetic | 1144 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2335+185.9.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 185.0 |
| kSBGY | 322.24 435.19 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 783.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shǒu粵sau2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7445 |
| kTang | *shiǒu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 339.040:shǒu |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thủ |
| kXerox | 244:360 |
| kXHC1983 | 1057.010:shǒu |