U+9BAB "鮫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鮫

U+9BAB "鮫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that in modern usage primarily refers to a shark, though in classical texts it also denotes a mythical dragon-like creature or a large, fierce aquatic animal, often translated as a "shark" or "sea monster." This kanji, also used in Japanese, appears in compound terms such as "鮫肌" (samehada) meaning "shark skin," and its structure combines the "fish" radical (魚) on the left with the phonetic component "交" (jiao) on the right. The character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, supporting its use across various East Asian languages, and its historical significance extends to its presence in classical literature, including references in Chinese mythology and Japanese folklore.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9BAB
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	鮫
HTML Hex Encoding	鮫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAE 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9BAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009BAB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9bab

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

kBigFive	C242
kCCCII	216178
kCNS1986	1-762E
kCNS1992	1-762E
kCangjie	NFYCK
kCantonese	gaau1
kCihaiT	1527.403
kCowles	1498
kDaeJaweon	2002.190
kDefinition	shark
kEACC	216178
kFanqie	古肴
kFourCornerCode	2034.8
kGB1	8662
kGSR	1166o
kHangul	교:0N
kHanYu	74688.040
kHanyuPinyin	74688.040:jiāo
kHKGlyph	4651
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	2002.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74688.040
kIRGKangXi	1469.220
kIRG_GSource	G1-765E
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C242
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B2D
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D0DE
kIRG_KSource	K0-4E77
kIRG_TSource	T1-762E
kJapanese	コウキョウさめみずち
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	SAME MIZUCHI
kJapaneseOn	KOU
kJis0	2713
kKangXi	1469.220
kKarlgren	357
kKorean	KYO
kMandarin	jiāo
kMatthews	717
kMeyerWempe	993a
kMojiJoho	MJ029141 MJ029143:E0103 MJ029141:E0104 MJ029142:E0105
kMorohashi	46127 46127:E0104
kNelson	5294
kPhonetic	553
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2171+195.11.6 V+20280+195.11.6
kRSUnicode	195.6
kSBGY	152.14
kSimplifiedVariant	"鲛" U+9C9B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	799.12
kSMSZD2003Readings	jiāo粵gaau1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7640
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	276:304