U+9AD9 "髙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9AD9 "髙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a variant form of the standard Chinese character 高, meaning "tall," "high," or "elevated," and is used across various East Asian writing systems, including Japanese and Korean. This particular glyph, often referred to as the "tall" or "ladder" radical (亠) variant, differs from the common form 高 by substituting the top component with a slightly different arrangement of strokes, typically featuring a dot and a horizontal line above a squared enclosure. It appears in historical texts, personal names, and place names, notably in Japan where it is a common surname character (e.g., 髙橋, Takahashi). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it encodes a logogram shared across Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese scripts, facilitating consistent representation despite regional typographic variations.

General Properties

Code Point U+9AD9
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 髙
HTML Hex Encoding 髙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAB 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9AD9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009AD9
C/C++/Java Escape \u9ad9

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

kCNS1986 E-6334
kCNS1992 3-6334
kCangjie YSLB
kCantonese gou1
kCihaiT 1518.101
kDefinition high, tall; lofty, elevated
kFanqie 古勞
kFennIndex 243.10
kHanYu 74594.010
kIBMJapan FBFC
kIICore CJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74593.020
kIRGKangXi 1451.261
kIRG_GSource GE-554C
kIRG_JSource JMJ-028902
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8B29
kIRG_MSource MD-9AD9
kIRG_TSource T4-362D
kJapanese コウ たかい たか たかまる たかめる
kJapaneseKun TAKAI TAKAMARU TAKASA
kJapaneseOn KOU
kKangXi 1451.261
kKorean KO
kMandarin gāo
kMojiJoho MJ028902
kMorohashi 45314
kNelson 5247
kPhonetic 637
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8705+189.11.0
kRSUnicode 189.0
kSemanticVariant U+9AD8<kFenn
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 J