U+9BCF "鯏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9BCF "鯏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is also used in Japanese kanji, primarily representing the word "ayu" or sweetfish, a species of fish native to East Asia. In Chinese, it may also refer to a type of clam or shellfish, depending on the context, though its usage is less common. The character is composed of the radical for fish (魚) and a phonetic component, reflecting its origins in traditional CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) script systems, where it has been standardized for digital encoding and cross-language text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9BCF
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	鯏
HTML Hex Encoding	鯏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAF 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9BCF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009BCF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9bcf

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

kCangjie	NFHDN
kCantonese	lei6
kDefinition	dialect name for a (bad tasting) blood clam
kEACC	697245
kFourCornerCode	2230.0
kHanYu	74691.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74691.190
kIRGKangXi	1471.281
kIRG_GSource	GE-5628
kIRG_HSource	H-96B3
kIRG_JSource	J0-7245
kIRG_TSource	TF-6172
kJapanese	あさり うぐい
kJapaneseKun	ASARI UGUI
kJis0	8237
kKangXi	1471.281
kMandarin	lí
kMojiJoho	MJ029187
kMorohashi	46201
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7322+195.11.7
kRSUnicode	195.7
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HJ