U+9B3B "鬻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鬻

U+9B3B "鬻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to sell" or "to peddle," with a historical connotation often associated with selling goods or services in a humble or menial context, such as selling porridge or one's abilities. It is composed of the radical 鬲 (a tripod cauldron for cooking) and the phonetic component 粥 (congee or porridge), visually linking it to the act of offering food for sale. In classical literature, this character appears in phrases like "鬻文" (to sell one's writing) or "鬻爵" (to sell official titles), reflecting its usage in describing transactions that involve trade or bargaining. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it is recognized across these languages, though in modern standard Chinese it is largely archaic and replaced by simpler characters like 卖 (mài) for the same concept.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9B3B
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	鬻
HTML Hex Encoding	鬻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAC 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9B3B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009B3B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9b3b

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

kBigFive	F7A7
kCCCII	39505B
kCNS1986	2-6E54
kCNS1992	2-6E54
kCangjie	NNMRB
kCantonese	juk6
kCihaiT	1521.404
kDaeJaweon	1992.280
kDefinition	sell; child, childish; nourish
kEACC	39505B
kFanqie	余六
kFenn	589I
kFennIndex	649.01
kFourCornerCode	1722.7
kGB0	6987
kGB1	6987
kGSR	1024b
kHanYu	74590.150
kHanyuPinyin	74590.150:zhōu,yù,jū
kIRGDaeJaweon	1992.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74590.150
kIRGKangXi	1459.450
kIRG_GSource	G0-6577
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F7A7
kIRG_JSource	J0-6478
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8C15
kIRG_KSource	K2-7039
kIRG_TSource	T2-6E54
kJapanese	シュクビミイクキクコクかゆ
kTGH	2013:6476
kJapaneseKun	KAYU HISAGU
kJapaneseOn	SHUKU IKU
kJis0	6888
kKangXi	1459.450
kMainlandTelegraph	7605
kMandarin	yù
kMatthews	7691
kMeyerWempe	3937c
kMojiJoho	MJ029012
kMorohashi	45721
kNelson	5275
kPhonetic	94 301
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6057+193.10.12
kRSUnicode	193.12
kSBGY	455.48
kSMSZD2003Index	795.12 209.12
kSMSZD2003Readings	yù粵juk6 zhōu粵zuk1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7605
kTGHZ2013	450.100:yù
kTotalStrokes	22
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	275:311
kXHC1983	1418.120:yù