U+9B78 "魸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9B78 "魸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character primarily used in Japanese contexts, where it is known as a kokuji or a character invented in Japan. It appears in the fish radical and is generally understood to mean a type of catfish, though its usage is highly obscure and not commonly found in modern standard texts. The character is included in Unicode for historical and technical completeness, particularly to support legacy Japanese character sets and specialized documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9B78
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	魸
HTML Hex Encoding	魸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAD 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9B78
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009B78
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9b78

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

kCangjie	XNFLL
kCantonese	pin3
kDaeJaweon	2000.160
kHanYu	74678.051
kIRGDaeJaweon	2000.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74678.051
kIRGKangXi	1467.041
kIRG_GSource	GE-556D
kIRG_JSource	J1-6A4F
kJapanese	なまず
kJapaneseOn	NAMAZU
kJis1	7447
kKangXi	1467.041
kMandarin	piàn
kMojiJoho	MJ029078
kMorohashi	46031
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22960+91.4.11 C+22960+195.11.4
kRSUnicode	195.4
kTotalStrokes	15