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

Code Point U+9A6C
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 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

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 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
kPhonetic 863
kRSUnicode 187'.0
kTGHZ2013 240.100:mǎ
kTotalStrokes 3
kTraditionalVariant "馬" U+99AC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXHC1983 0755.040:mǎ