U+9B5B "魛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9B5B "魛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of fish, specifically the mullet or a similar species, and is often found in classical texts and regional vocabulary. The character is composed of the radical 魚 (fish) on the left, indicating its semantic connection to aquatic life, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is approximately "dao" with a level tone. This ideograph is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems, and it is less commonly used in modern everyday language, appearing more frequently in historical or specialized contexts such as literature on marine biology or ancient cuisine.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9B5B
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	魛
HTML Hex Encoding	魛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAD 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9B5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009B5B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9b5b

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	E0EA
kCCCII	235656
kCNS1986	2-4870
kCNS1992	2-4870
kCangjie	NFSH
kCantonese	dou1
kCihaiT	1525.402
kDaeJaweon	1999.020
kDefinition	the mullet
kFanqie	都勞
kFourCornerCode	2732.0
kGB3	8727
kHanYu	74675.030
kHanyuPinyin	74675.030:dāo
kIRGDaeJaweon	1999.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74675.030
kIRGKangXi	1465.040
kIRG_GSource	G3-773B
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E0EA
kIRG_JSource	J1-6A40
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8C6C
kIRG_KSource	K2-7044
kIRG_TSource	T2-4870
kJapanese	トウ
kJapaneseKun	TACHIUO
kJapaneseOn	TOU
kJis1	7432
kKangXi	1465.040
kMandarin	dāo
kMatthews	6126
kMojiJoho	MJ029047
kMorohashi	45960
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22955+18.2.11 C+22955+195.11.2
kRSUnicode	195.2
kSBGY	156.46
kSimplifiedVariant	"鱽" U+9C7D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	797.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	dāo粵dou1
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	HMT