U+9AE1 "髡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
髡
U+9AE1 "髡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that historically refers to a form of ancient punishment or social custom involving the shaving off of a person's hair, particularly as a mark of disgrace or penal servitude in dynastic China. This character is composed of the radical for "hair" or "bristle" combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in historical texts describing penal codes and rituals. In modern usage, it is rarely encountered outside of specialized scholarly contexts, such as studies of classical Chinese law, literature, or historical linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9AE1 |
| 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 | 髡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 髡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAB 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9AE1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009AE1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9ae1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9A6 |
| kCCCII | 2F5476 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-676C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-676C |
| kCangjie | SHMU |
| kCantonese | kwan1 |
| kCihaiT | 1518.202 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1983.070 |
| kDefinition | to shave the head as a punishment; to prune |
| kEACC | 2F5476 |
| kFanqie | 苦昆 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7221.1 |
| kGB0 | 8753 |
| kGB1 | 8753 |
| kGSR | 0423a |
| kHangul | 곤:1N |
| kHanYu | 74518.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74518.090:kūn |
| kIICore | AGT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1983.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74518.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1452.310 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7755 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9A6 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-028912 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8B3A |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5938 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-676C |
| kJapanese | コツ コン クチ ゴツ ゴチ そる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5349 |
| kKangXi | 1452.310 |
| kKorean | KON |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7562 |
| kMandarin | kūn |
| kMeyerWempe | 482r 1391b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028912 |
| kMorohashi | 45361 |
| kPhonetic | 963 |
| kRSUnicode | 190.3 |
| kSBGY | 120.06 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9AE0<kSMSZD2003Index:T |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 793.02 46.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kūn粵kwan1 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 204.070:kūn |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXHC1983 | 0663.210:kūn |