U+99BC "馼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+99BC "馼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely archaic Chinese character with a complex meaning related to a mythical striped horse or a legendary beast. Found in classical texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi (an ancient Chinese dictionary), it is composed of the radical for horse (马 or 馬) combined with a phonetic component, and it denotes a fabled animal sometimes associated with the zōu yú (a righteous, tiger-like creature) or a type of auspicious steed that does not tread on living grass. Because of its extreme obscurity in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean usage, it is primarily of interest to historians of ancient scripts and specialists in classical mythology rather than appearing in everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point U+99BC
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 馼
HTML Hex Encoding 馼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA6 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x99BC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000099BC
C/C++/Java Escape \u99bc

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 23524E
kCNS1986 E-4A61
kCNS1992 3-4A61
kCangjie SFYK
kCantonese man4
kCihaiT 1505.204
kEACC 23524E
kFanqie 無分
kFourCornerCode 7034.0
kHanYu 74545.020
kHanyuPinyin 74545.020:wén
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74545.020
kIRGKangXi 1435.050
kIRG_GSource GE-5470
kIRG_HSource H-9677
kIRG_JSource J0-7149
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8962
kIRG_KSource K2-6E65
kIRG_TSource T3-4A61
kJapanese ブン モン
kJapaneseOn BUN MON
kJis0 8141
kKangXi 1435.050
kMandarin wén
kMojiJoho MJ028638 MJ028638:E0101 MJ028639:E0102
kMorohashi 44610 44610:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7232+67.4.10 C+7232+187.10.4
kRSUnicode 187.4
kSBGY 109.36
kSimplifiedVariant "𫘜" U+2B61C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 HJ