U+9B42 "魂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

魂

U+9B42 "魂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram from the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems that means "soul," "spirit," or "ghost." This character is composed of two primary components: the semantic radical 鬼 (guǐ, meaning "ghost" or "demon") and the phonetic element 云 (yún, meaning "cloud" or "to say"), though the phonetic contribution is less straightforward in modern Mandarin. In East Asian cultural and philosophical contexts, "魂" represents the spiritual or ethereal aspect of a person, often contrasted with the physical body or the more earthly "魄" (po), and it is central to concepts of ancestor worship, folk religion, and literary depictions of the afterlife. The character appears frequently in idioms and compound words, such as "靈魂" (soul) and "魂魄" (soul and spirit), underscoring its deep symbolic significance across these cultures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9B42
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	魂
HTML Hex Encoding	魂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAD 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9B42
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009B42
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9b42

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	BBEE
kCCCII	21616E
kCNS1986	1-6B77
kCNS1992	1-6B77
kCangjie	MIHI
kCantonese	wan4
kCihaiT	1522.602
kCowles	5028
kDaeJaweon	1994.200
kDefinition	soul, spirit
kEACC	21616E
kFenn	875C
kFennIndex	211.08
kFourCornerCode	1671.3
kGB0	2774
kGB1	2774
kGradeLevel	6
kGSR	0460g
kHangul	혼:0E
kHanYu	74428.090
kHanyuPinlu	hún(46)
kHanyuPinyin	74428.090:hún
kHKGlyph	4640
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1994.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74428.090
kIRGKangXi	1461.120
kIRG_GSource	G0-3B6A
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BBEE
kIRG_JSource	J0-3A32
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F4C6
kIRG_KSource	K0-7B6B
kIRG_TSource	T1-6B77
kIRG_VSource	V1-6C64
kJapanese	コンゴンたましい
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:2830
kJapaneseKun	TAMASHII
kJapaneseOn	KON GON
kJis0	2618
kKangXi	1461.120
kKarlgren	291
kKorean	HON
kLau	3222
kMainlandTelegraph	7609
kMandarin	hún
kMatthews	2365
kMeyerWempe	3755
kMojiJoho	MJ029019
kMorohashi	45787
kNelson	5278
kPhonetic	1441
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2082+194.10.4
kRSUnicode	194.4
kSMSZD2003Index	796.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	hún粵wan4
kTaiwanTelegraph	7609
kTang	*huən
kTGHZ2013	150.080:hún
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	hồn
kXerox	253:307
kXHC1983	0507.060:hún