U+9BE0 "鯠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9BE0 "鯠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoded for use in digital text. This character, pronounced roughly as "lái" in Mandarin, is composed of the radical for "fish" (魚) on the left and the phonetic component "來" (lái, meaning "to come") on the right, suggesting it originally referred to a type of fish. Historically, it appears in classical Chinese lexicons, such as the Kangxi Dictionary, where it is defined as the name of a fish mentioned in ancient texts, though it is seldom used in modern writing. As a legacy character, it is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese philology, typography, and digital encoding standards, representing a small but notable part of the vast repertoire of traditional CJK characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+9BE0
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 鯠
HTML Hex Encoding 鯠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAF 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9BE0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009BE0
C/C++/Java Escape \u9be0

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 F3C9
kCCCII 235824
kCNS1986 2-6836
kCNS1992 2-6836
kCangjie NFDOO
kCantonese loi4
kCihaiT 1529.306
kDaeJaweon 2004.410
kDefinition to confer; to bestow on an inferior; to reward
kFanqie 洛哀
kFourCornerCode 2439.8
kHanYu 74695.110
kHanyuPinyin 74695.110:lái
kIRGDaeJaweon 2004.410
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74695.110
kIRGKangXi 1472.330
kIRG_GSource GE-562F
kIRG_HSource HB2-F3C9
kIRG_JSource JMJ-029208
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8D10
kIRG_KSource K2-712B
kIRG_TSource T2-6836
kJapanese ライ
kKangXi 1472.330
kMandarin lái
kMatthews 3774
kMojiJoho MJ029208
kMorohashi 46242
kRSUnicode 195.8
kSBGY 100.09
kSimplifiedVariant "𱇭" U+311ED CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 HMT