U+9998 "馘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
馘
U+9998 "馘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes the act of severing a head, specifically the left ear of a slain enemy as a trophy in ancient warfare, a practice tied to counting battle casualties. Its semantic components include the radical for "head" or "page" (頁) alongside a phonetic element, reflecting its historical usage in classical texts like the Zuo Zhuan. In modern contexts, it appears in literary or historical discussions rather than everyday language, sometimes extended metaphorically to signify execution or drastic elimination.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9998 |
| 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 | 馘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 馘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA6 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9998 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009998 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9998 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EF55 |
| kCCCII | 235230 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6061 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6061 |
| kCangjie | TUIRM |
| kCantonese | gwik1 |
| kCihaiT | 1495.602 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1954.170 |
| kDefinition | cut off left ear; tally dead enemy |
| kEACC | 235230 |
| kFanqie | 古獲 古或 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8365.0 |
| kGB0 | 5769 |
| kGB1 | 5769 |
| kGSR | 0929u |
| kHangul | 괵:1N |
| kHanYu | 74501.210 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74501.210:guó,xù |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1954.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74501.210 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1428.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5965 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EF55 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-7145 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-892A |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5A2B |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6061 |
| kJapanese | カク コク ケキ ゲキ キャク くびきる みみきる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:7971 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIMIKIRU KUBIKIRU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAKU |
| kJis0 | 8137 |
| kKangXi | 1428.130 |
| kKarlgren | 118 |
| kKorean | KOYK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7446 |
| kMandarin | guó |
| kMatthews | 3743 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1406e |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028597 |
| kMorohashi | 44507 |
| kNelson | 5187 |
| kPhonetic | 1416 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7228+185.9.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 185.8 |
| kSBGY | 513.33 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+805D<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 783.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | guó粵gwok3 xù粵gwik1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7446 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 126.130:guó |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 301:074 |
| kXHC1983 | 0426.050:guó |