U+9B8E "鮎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鮎
U+9B8E "鮎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character that primarily represents a type of freshwater fish, specifically the sweetfish or ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis), which is native to East Asia and highly regarded in Japanese cuisine and angling culture. In Chinese, this character can also refer to a catfish or sometimes a different species depending on context. Its composition includes the radical for "fish" (魚) on the left, indicating its aquatic nature, and a phonetic component on the right. The character is used in written Chinese and Japanese, where it appears in words related to fishing, traditional dishes, and seasonal symbolism, often associated with summer and river ecosystems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9B8E |
| 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 | 鮎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鮎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9B8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009B8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9b8e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 235729 |
| kCNS1986 | E-5425 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-5425 |
| kCangjie | NFYR |
| kCantonese | nim4 |
| kCihaiT | 1527.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2001.160 |
| kDefinition | sheatfish, Parasilurus asotus |
| kEACC | 235729 |
| kFanqie | 奴兼 |
| kFenn | 720K |
| kFennIndex | 363.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2136.0 |
| kGB1 | 8651 |
| kHangul | 점:0N |
| kHanYu | 74680.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74680.140:nián |
| kIICore | AJKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2001.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74680.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1468.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7653 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-916D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-303E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E8B3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6F46 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-5425 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-9151 |
| kJapanese | デン ネン あゆ なまず |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | AYU NAMAZU |
| kJapaneseOn | NEN |
| kJis0 | 1630 |
| kKangXi | 1468.100 |
| kKorean | CEM |
| kMandarin | nián |
| kMatthews | 4713 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029104 MJ029104:E0101 MJ029103:E0102 MJ059095:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 46070 46070:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5288 |
| kPhonetic | 177 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1154+195.11.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.5 |
| kSBGY | 229.16 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9BF0<kSMSZD2003Index:T |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鲇" U+9C87 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 798.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | nián粵nim4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7630 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKP |
| kXerox | 273:046 |