U+9A9F "骟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9A9F "骟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to geld or castrate an animal, especially a horse. It is composed of the radical for horse (马) on the left and the phonetic component 善 on the right, reflecting its semantic and sound cues in the Chinese writing system. This character is used in agricultural and veterinary contexts, specifically for describing the surgical removal of reproductive organs in male livestock to improve temperament or meat quality. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it has historical roots in classical texts and remains in modern usage within specialized terminology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9A9F
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	骟
HTML Hex Encoding	骟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAA 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9A9F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009A9F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9a9f

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	29535A
kCangjie	NMISM
kCantonese	sin3
kDefinition	geld, castrate
kEACC	29535A
kFourCornerCode	7312
kGB0	7083
kHanYu	74573.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74573.020
kIRGKangXi	1447.241
kIRG_GSource	G0-6673
kTGH	2013:5619
kKangXi	1447.241
kMainlandTelegraph	7509
kMandarin	shàn
kPhonetic	1202*
kRSUnicode	187'.10
kTGHZ2013	325.070:shàn
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"騸" U+9A38 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1000.010:shàn