U+999D "馝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+999D "馝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character meaning "fragrant" or "to emit a sweet smell," often associated with incense or spices in classical texts. It is composed of the radical 香 (xiāng, meaning "fragrance") on the left and the phonetic component 必 (bì) on the right, suggesting both its semantic field and pronunciation. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese, but it occasionally appears in historical or literary contexts, particularly in descriptions of aromatic substances. Its inclusion in the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block allows for accurate digital representation of Classical Chinese and other historical East Asian documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+999D
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	馝
HTML Hex Encoding	馝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA6 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x999D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000999D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u999d

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

kBigFive	E4D1
kCCCII	235233
kCNS1986	2-4F39
kCNS1992	2-4F39
kCangjie	HAPH
kCantonese	bit6
kCihaiT	1497.301
kDaeJaweon	1955.100
kDefinition	fragrance
kFanqie	毗必 蒲結
kFourCornerCode	2360.0
kGB3	9010
kHangul	필:0N
kHanYu	74423.100
kHanyuPinyin	74423.100:bì
kIICore	AKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1955.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74423.100
kIRGKangXi	1429.090
kIRG_GSource	G3-7A2A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E4D1
kIRG_JSource	J1-6878
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F1FC
kIRG_KSource	K0-7938
kIRG_TSource	T2-4F39
kJapanese	ヘツ ベチ ヒツ ビチ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:7688
kJapaneseKun	KAORI
kJapaneseOn	HITSU BICHI HETSU BECHI
kJis1	7288
kKangXi	1429.090
kKorean	PHIL
kMandarin	bì
kMojiJoho	MJ028602
kMorohashi	44528
kPhonetic	1059*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22897+186.9.5
kRSUnicode	186.5
kSBGY	471.33 496.04
kTaiwanTelegraph	7452
kTGHZ2013	019.230:bì
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	GHKMPT
kXerox	314:320