U+9B9D "鮝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9B9D "鮝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily refers to dried or cured fish, often prepared by salting and sun drying, a common method of preserving seafood in East Asian culinary traditions. This character is composed of the radical for "fish" (魚) on the left, combined with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its logographic structure. It appears in historical texts and traditional recipes, particularly in the context of Cantonese and Fujian cuisine, where dried fish is used to impart a savory, umami flavor to dishes. While not frequently used in modern simplified Chinese, it remains a recognized part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9B9D
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	鮝
HTML Hex Encoding	鮝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAE 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9B9D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009B9D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9b9d

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	235739
kCNS1986	E-5745
kCNS1992	3-5745
kCangjie	FQNWF
kCantonese	soeng2
kDaeJaweon	2001.370
kDefinition	dried fish
kEACC	235739
kGB1	8663
kHanYu	74689.050
kHanyuPinyin	74689.050:xiǎng,zhèn
kIRGDaeJaweon	2001.370
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74689.050
kIRGKangXi	1468.310
kIRG_GSource	G1-765F
kIRG_HSource	H-9FC3
kIRG_JSource	J1-6A5F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8CC7
kIRG_KSource	K2-7068
kIRG_TSource	T3-5745
kJapanese	ショウ
kJapaneseKun	FUKA
kJapaneseOn	SHOU YOU
kJis1	7463
kKangXi	1468.310
kKorean	SANG
kMandarin	xiǎng
kMatthews	2580
kMojiJoho	MJ029125
kMorohashi	46100
kPhonetic	664
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+20017+195.11.6
kRSUnicode	195.6
kSemanticVariant	U+9BD7<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"鲞" U+9C9E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	800.01
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	301:164