U+9B37 "鬷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鬷

U+9B37 "鬷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character, primarily found in classical texts and historical contexts rather than in modern everyday usage. Its literal meaning pertains to a type of ancient cooking vessel or cauldron, often associated with ritual or ceremonial purposes in early Chinese dynasties. The character is composed of the radical for "cauldron" (鬲) combined with other phonetic and semantic components, reflecting its specialized function in describing bronze or earthenware implements used for heating or preparing food in antiquity. Due to its obscurity, it is mostly encountered in scholarly works on Chinese archaeology, classical literature, or linguistic studies of archaic or Middle Chinese, and it remains a challenge for digital text processing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9B37
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	鬷
HTML Hex Encoding	鬷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAC 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9B37
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009B37
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9b37

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

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kIRGDaeJaweon	1992.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74589.120
kIRGKangXi	1459.270
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kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8C0E
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kJapanese	ソウス
kTGH	2013:8033
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kMojiJoho	MJ029008
kMorohashi	45702
kPhonetic	320
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22949+193.10.9
kRSUnicode	193.9
kSBGY	031.39 236.29
kTaiwanTelegraph	7604
kTGHZ2013	493.070:zōng
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	310:111