U+9AE0 "髠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

髠

U+9AE0 "髠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the Kangxi radical for "hair" or "bristle," and its core meaning relates to the act of shaving or cutting off hair, often associated with ancient Chinese penal practices or monastic tonsure. Historically, this character appears in classical texts as a variant form of the more common character "髡," which was used to denote a punishment involving the forced removal of a person's hair as a form of humiliation or for Buddhist monks adopting a shaven head as part of religious ordination. In modern usage, "髠" is considered a rare or obsolete variant, primarily preserved in historical or specialized linguistic contexts rather than in everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9AE0
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	髠
HTML Hex Encoding	髠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAB 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9AE0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009AE0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9ae0

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	235476
kCNS1986	E-4032
kCNS1992	3-4032
kCangjie	SHHN
kCantonese	kwan1
kCihaiT	1518.201
kDaeJaweon	1983.050
kDefinition	to shave the head as a punishment; to prune
kEACC	235476
kGB5	8907
kHanYu	74518.040
kIRGDaeJaweon	1983.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74518.040
kIRGKangXi	1452.300
kIRG_GSource	G5-7927
kIRG_HSource	H-915B
kIRG_JSource	J14-7D33
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8B37
kIRG_KSource	K2-6F71
kIRG_TSource	T3-4032
kJapanese	コンそる
kJIS0213	2,93,19
kJapaneseKun	SORU
kJapaneseOn	KON
kJis1	7378
kKangXi	1452.300
kMandarin	kūn
kMatthews	3685
kMojiJoho	MJ028911
kMorohashi	45359
kPhonetic	596*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19006+16.2.10 C+19006+190.10.2
kRSUnicode	190.2
kSemanticVariant	U+9AE1<kSMSZD2003Index:TZ
kSMSZD2003Index	54.15 793.01
kTaiwanTelegraph	7562
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	301:100
kXHC1983	0663.211:kūn