U+9AA8 "骨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9AA8 "骨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "bone" and is widely used in East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) script system. Its form, a pictograph of a skeletal structure, conveys meanings related to bones, frameworks, or fundamental structures, appearing in terms such as "骨骼" (skeleton) and "骨气" (moral integrity) in Chinese, and is also found in compound characters like "滑" (slippery) or "骼" (skeleton), highlighting its role as a semantic component in the logographic writing system. Historically, this radical has been used across centuries in classical texts and modern typography, reflecting its deep integration into the cultural and linguistic traditions of East Asia.

General Properties

Code Point U+9AA8
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 骨
HTML Hex Encoding 骨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAA 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9AA8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009AA8
C/C++/Java Escape \u9aa8

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

kAlternateTotalStrokes 10:HJKPV
kBigFive B0A9
kCCCII 216152
kCNS1986 1-586C
kCNS1992 1-586C
kCangjie BBB
kCantonese gwat1
kCihaiT 1512.102
kCowles 2083
kDaeJaweon 1973.070
kDefinition bone; skeleton; frame, framework; Kangxi radical 188
kEACC 216152
kFanqie 古忽
kFenn 616C
kFennIndex 259.06 260.08
kFourCornerCode 7722.7
kGB0 2539
kGB1 2539
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0486a
kHangul 골:0E
kHanYu 74406.010
kHanyuPinlu gǔ(185) gú(62)
kHanyuPinyin 74406.010:gǔ,gú,gū
kHDZRadBreak ⾻[U+2FBB]:74406.010
kHKGlyph 4613
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1973.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74406.010
kIRGKangXi 1447.250
kIRG_GSource G0-3947
kIRG_HSource HB1-B0A9
kIRG_JSource J0-397C
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D0B5
kIRG_KSource K0-4D69
kIRG_TSource T1-586C
kIRG_VSource V1-6C51
kJapanese コツ クチ ほね
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:1523
kJapaneseKun HONE
kJapaneseOn KOTSU
kJis0 2592
kKangXi 1447.250
kKarlgren 427
kKorean KOL
kLau 1042
kMainlandTelegraph 7539
kMandarin
kMatthews 3486
kMeyerWempe 1400
kMojiJoho MJ028848 MJ028848:E0101 MJ059058:E0102 MJ059059:E0103
kMorohashi 45098 45098:E0101
kNelson 5236
kPhonetic 700 735
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2062+188.10.0
kRSUnicode 188.0
kSBGY 479.49
kSMSZD2003Index 790.06
kSMSZD2003Readings gǔ粵gwat1 gú粵gwat1 gū粵gwat1
kTaiwanTelegraph 7539
kTang *guət
kTGHZ2013 117.050:gū 118.030:gǔ
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese cốt
kXerox 246:167
kXHC1983 0394.020:gū 0395.020:gú 0397.120:gǔ