U+9A6C "马" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+9A6C "马" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph representing the word for "horse," and it is a component of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard. This character is a simplified form, with its traditional counterpart being "馬," and it is widely used in modern Chinese writing, as well as in Japanese and Korean scripts where it retains a similar meaning. Historically, the character evolved from pictographic origins in ancient Chinese oracle bone script, where it depicted a horse with flowing mane, and today it appears in numerous compound words and idioms, such as "马上" meaning "immediately" or "on horseback," reflecting the cultural significance of the horse in East Asian history and language.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
马 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
马 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE9 0xA9 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x9A6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00009A6C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u9a6c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
27612C |
| kCangjie |
NVSM |
| kCantonese |
maa5 |
| kDefinition |
horse; surname; Kangxi radical 187 |
| kEACC |
27612C |
| kFourCornerCode |
7712 |
| kGB0 |
3477 |
| kHanYu |
74539.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu |
mǎ(891) |
| kIICore |
AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
74539.020 |
| kIRGKangXi |
1447.241 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-426D |
| kIRG_HSource |
H-89C6 |
| kTGH |
2013:72 |
| kKangXi |
1447.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
7456 |
| kMandarin |
mǎ |
| kPhonetic |
863 |
| kRSUnicode |
187'.0 |
| kTGHZ2013 |
240.100:mǎ |
| kTotalStrokes |
3 |
| kTraditionalVariant |
"馬" U+99AC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
GH |
| kXHC1983 |
0755.040:mǎ |