U+9B55 "魕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9B55 "魕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that appears in historical and classical texts, often associated with supernatural or demonic concepts, as its radical "鬼" (ghost or spirit) suggests. While its precise modern usage is extremely limited, it is recorded in ancient literature and dictionaries as a variant or obscure form of other characters, typically signifying ghosts, ominous spirits, or unlucky phenomena. The character is composed of elements combining "鬼" with phonetic components, reflecting traditional Chinese beliefs about the spiritual world and the written language’s capacity for encoding specialized or archaic terms. Due to its rarity, it is not commonly used in contemporary Chinese writing but remains a point of interest for scholars of paleography and classical Chinese studies.

General Properties

Code Point U+9B55
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 魕
HTML Hex Encoding 魕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAD 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9B55
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009B55
C/C++/Java Escape \u9b55

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 F7A9
kCCCII 23564E
kCNS1986 2-6E56
kCNS1992 2-6E56
kCangjie HIVII
kCantonese kei4
kCihaiT 1524.202
kDaeJaweon 1997.130
kFourCornerCode 2225.3
kGB3 9019
kHanYu 74437.220
kIRGDaeJaweon 1997.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74437.220
kIRGKangXi 1463.130
kIRG_GSource G3-7A33
kIRG_HSource HB2-F7A9
kIRG_JSource J1-6A3D
kIRG_KSource K2-7040
kIRG_TSource T2-6E56
kJapanese
kJapaneseKun ONI
kJapaneseOn KI
kJis1 7429
kKangXi 1463.130
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ029041
kMorohashi 45923
kPhonetic 598*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+20012+194.10.12
kRSUnicode 194.12
kTotalStrokes 21
kUnihanCore2020 HMT