U+9B9F "鮟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鮟
U+9B9F "鮟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a specific type of fish, often identified as the anglerfish or a similar deep sea creature, and it appears in classical texts and modern usage primarily as part of the compound word "鮟鱇" (an'kang), which denotes the anglerfish. Its radical is 魚 (fish), indicating its semantic connection to aquatic life, while its phonetic component, 安 (peaceful), contributes to its pronunciation in both Mandarin and other East Asian languages. This character is encoded in the Unicode standard to support the comprehensive representation of Traditional Chinese and Japanese writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9B9F |
| 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 | 鮟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鮟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAE 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9B9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009B9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9b9f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 235736 |
| kCNS1986 | E-5740 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-5740 |
| kCangjie | NFJV |
| kCantonese | on1 |
| kCihaiT | 1528.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2001.410 |
| kDefinition | anglerfish |
| kEACC | 235736 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2334.4 |
| kGB3 | 8803 |
| kHangul | 안:0N |
| kHanYu | 74689.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74689.090:àn,ān |
| kIICore | ATJKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2001.410 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74689.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1469.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-7823 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-96B5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-723D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7C7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6455 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-5740 |
| kJapanese | アン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseOn | AN |
| kJis0 | 8229 |
| kKangXi | 1469.030 |
| kKorean | AN |
| kMandarin | àn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029127 |
| kMorohashi | 46108 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7314+195.11.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.6 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𩽾" U+29F7E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 799.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ān粵on1 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKP |