U+9A96 "骖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
骖
U+9A96 "骖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally refers to a team of three horses drawing a carriage, specifically denoting the two outside horses on either side of the central one in a three-horse chariot or harness. Its composition reflects its semantic root, combining the radical for horse with a phonetic component, and it appears in classical texts such as the Shijing and historical writings about ancient Chinese chariotry. In modern usage, "骖" is relatively rare but persists in formal or literary contexts, sometimes extended metaphorically to suggest coordination or mutual support, as in the term "骖乘" meaning an attendant or charioteer.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9A96 |
| 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 | 骖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 骖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAA 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9A96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009A96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9a96 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 295379 |
| kCangjie | NMIKH |
| kCantonese | caam1 |
| kDefinition | two outside ones in three horse |
| kEACC | 295379 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7312 |
| kGB0 | 7078 |
| kHanYu | 74564.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74564.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1447.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-666E |
| kTGH | 2013:5039 |
| kKangXi | 1447.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7515 |
| kMandarin | cān |
| kPhonetic | 23* |
| kRSUnicode | 187'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 031.070:cān |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "驂" U+9A42 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0103.010:cān |