U+999B "馛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+999B "馛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is primarily used in classical or literary contexts, where it conveys the meaning of "fragrant" or "aromatic," often describing the rich scent of herbs or spices. This character is composed of the radical "香" (fragrance) on the left, combined with a phonetic component on the right, following the typical structure of many Chinese ideographs. While it is not commonly encountered in modern everyday Chinese writing, it appears in historical texts, poetry, and specialized vocabularies related to traditional medicine or culinary descriptions. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital documents and systems can preserve and display this rare character accurately for scholarly and linguistic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+999B
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 馛
HTML Hex Encoding 馛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA6 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x999B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000999B
C/C++/Java Escape \u999b

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 235235
kCangjie HAIKK
kCantonese bat6
kDaeJaweon 1955.080
kDefinition fragrance, fragrant
kFanqie 蒲撥
kGB3 9009
kHanYu 74423.070
kHanyuPinyin 74423.070:bó
kIRGDaeJaweon 1955.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74423.070
kIRGKangXi 1429.060
kIRG_GSource G3-7A29
kIRG_HSource H-966A
kIRG_JSource J1-6877
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8933
kIRG_TSource T5-4B4E
kJapanese ヘツ ヘチ
kJapaneseKun NIOI KOUBASHII
kJapaneseOn HATSU BACHI HETSU HECHI
kJis1 7287
kKangXi 1429.060
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ028600
kMorohashi 44525
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+22896+186.9.5
kRSUnicode 186.5
kSBGY 487.33
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 H