U+9B53 "魓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9B53 "魓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic sinograph, historically classified as a radical 鬼 (ghost or spirit) character with a phonetic component from the 畢 (bì) series. Its precise meaning is not well attested in modern standard Chinese, but ancient dictionaries and texts suggest it may have referred to a type of malevolent spirit or a ghostly entity associated with rain or a net-like appearance, reflecting its composition that combines the ghost radical with a variant of the character for "to finish" or "net." This ideogram appears in some classical Chinese lexicons, such as the Kangxi Dictionary, but it is extremely obscure in contemporary usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9B53
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	魓
HTML Hex Encoding	魓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAD 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9B53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009B53
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9b53

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	23564A
kCNS1986	E-5F28
kCNS1992	3-5F28
kCangjie	HIWTJ
kCantonese	bat1
kHanYu	74436.100
kHanyuPinyin	74436.100:bì
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74436.100
kIRGKangXi	1462.660
kIRG_GSource	GE-5568
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-029038
kIRG_TSource	T3-5F28
kJapanese	ヒツ ヒチ
kKangXi	1462.660
kMandarin	bì
kMojiJoho	MJ029038
kMorohashi	45905
kRSUnicode	194.11
kTotalStrokes	19