U+9AE8 "髨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9AE8 "髨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely obsolete Chinese character that appears in some classical texts and historical dictionaries. It is composed of the radical for "hair" or "bristle" (髟) combined with a phonetic component, and its traditional meaning relates to a specific type of unkempt or shaved hair, sometimes associated with ancient penal or ritual practices such as hair removal as a form of punishment. While it is not used in modern standard Chinese, it remains encoded in Unicode for the purpose of preserving historical and linguistic documentation, representing a fragment of the vast corpus of traditional East Asian script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9AE8
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	髨
HTML Hex Encoding	髨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAB 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9AE8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009AE8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9ae8

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	23547A
kCNS1986	E-4A71
kCNS1992	3-4A71
kCangjie	SHMMU
kCantonese	kwan1
kDaeJaweon	1983.260
kHanYu	74519.010
kIRGDaeJaweon	1983.260
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74519.010
kIRGKangXi	1453.070
kIRG_GSource	GE-5552
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-028919
kIRG_TSource	T3-4A71
kJapanese	コン そる
kKangXi	1453.070
kMandarin	kūn
kMojiJoho	MJ028919
kMorohashi	45382
kRSUnicode	190.4
kTotalStrokes	14
kXerox	310:104