U+9B36 "鬶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9B36 "鬶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that historically refers to a type of ancient Chinese cooking vessel or tripod, typically made of pottery or bronze, used for heating food or water in the Neolithic and early dynastic periods. It is recognized in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block of Unicode, and its semantic components often relate to fire and containers. While rare in modern usage, the character is occasionally encountered in historical texts, archaeological studies, or classical literature discussing early Chinese rituals and culinary practices.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9B36
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	鬶
HTML Hex Encoding	鬶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAC 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9B36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009B36
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9b36

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

kCangjie	XQUMR
kCantonese	kwai1
kFourCornerCode	5722.7
kHanYu	74589.041
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74589.041
kIRGKangXi	1459.241
kIRG_GSource	GHZR-84886.08
kTGH	2013:7983
kJapaneseKun	KAMA
kJapaneseOn	KI GI KEI E
kKangXi	1459.241
kMandarin	guī
kRSUnicode	193.8
kTGHZ2013	124.080:guī
kTotalStrokes	18
kTraditionalVariant	"鬹" U+9B39 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0416.040:guī