U+9BCA "鯊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鯊
U+9BCA "鯊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "shark," commonly used in traditional Chinese and Japanese writing. Its glyph represents a fish (the radical 魚) combined with a phonetic component 沙 (shā, meaning "sand"), reflecting both its semantic category and pronunciation in Mandarin. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which standardizes East Asian logographic scripts for digital encoding, and it appears in classical texts, modern vocabulary, and marine-related terminology across languages in the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9BCA |
| 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 | 鯊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鯊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAF 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9BCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009BCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9bca |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C354 |
| kCCCII | 21617B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-777E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-777E |
| kCangjie | EHNWF |
| kCantonese | saa1 |
| kCihaiT | 1528.503 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2003.370 |
| kDefinition | shark |
| kEACC | 21617B |
| kFanqie | 所加 |
| kFenn | 122H |
| kFennIndex | 432.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3933.6 |
| kGB1 | 8672 |
| kGSR | 0016d |
| kHangul | 사:1N |
| kHanYu | 74693.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74693.020:shā |
| kHKGlyph | 4652 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2003.370 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74693.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1471.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7668 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C354 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-7242 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8CED |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-635A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-777E |
| kJapanese | サ シャ はぜ さめ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAZE SAME |
| kJapaneseOn | SA SHA |
| kJis0 | 8234 |
| kKangXi | 1471.210 |
| kKorean | SA |
| kLau | 2589 |
| kMandarin | shā |
| kMatthews | 5613 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2584a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029182 |
| kMorohashi | 46186 |
| kPhonetic | 1096 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7319+195.11.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.7 |
| kSBGY | 167.49 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9B66<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鲨" U+9CA8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 800.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shā粵saa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7644 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 270:343 |