U+9BC4 "鯄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鯄
U+9BC4 "鯄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that represents a type of mythical or large fish, often interpreted as a “flying fish” or a creature from classical mythology, though its exact meaning and usage are obscure in modern Chinese. This hanzi belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph block, and its components include the radical for fish (魚) on the left and the phonetic element “求” (qiú) on the right, suggesting a connection to sound and meaning from historical linguistic patterns. While it is not commonly used in contemporary writing, it occasionally appears in classical texts or specialized dictionaries, preserving a fragment of East Asian cultural and literary heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9BC4 |
| 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 | 鯄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鯄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAF 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9BC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009BC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9bc4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F1CC |
| kCCCII | 23575C |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6476 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6476 |
| kCangjie | NFIJE |
| kCantonese | kau4 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2333.2 |
| kGB5 | 8658 |
| kHanYu | 74690.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74690.050:qiú |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74690.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1471.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-765A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F1CC |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-029175 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6476 |
| kJapanese | キュウ グ |
| kKangXi | 1471.100 |
| kMandarin | qiú |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029175 |
| kMorohashi | 46175 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.7 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𩾁" U+29F81 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |