U+9B9C "鮜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9B9C "鮜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (a Hanzi) used primarily in historical or classical texts, though it is not common in modern standard Chinese. Its traditional meaning refers to a type of fish, often identified as the Chinese herring or a similar species, and it has also been documented as a variant of the character "鱟" (hòu), meaning horseshoe crab, in some older dictionaries. This character is composed of the radical "魚" (fish) on the left and the phonetic component "后" (hòu) on the right, indicating both its semantic category and approximate pronunciation. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it represents a specific grapheme shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, though its usage is largely limited to specialized or literary contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+9B9C
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 鮜
HTML Hex Encoding 鮜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAE 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9B9C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009B9C
C/C++/Java Escape \u9b9c

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 235751
kCangjie NFHMR
kCantonese hau6
kDaeJaweon 2001.360
kFanqie 胡遘
kGB3 8788
kHanYu 74687.090
kHanyuPinyin 74687.090:hòu
kIRGDaeJaweon 2001.360
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74687.090
kIRGKangXi 1468.300
kIRG_GSource G3-7778
kIRG_JSource JMJ-029124
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8CD1
kIRG_KSource K2-7067
kIRG_TSource T4-5A49
kJapanese コウ ゴ
kKangXi 1468.300
kMandarin hòu
kMojiJoho MJ029124
kMorohashi 46099
kRSUnicode 195.6
kSBGY 437.29
kSimplifiedVariant "鲘" U+9C98 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 17
kXerox 324:254