U+9BE1 "鯡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鯡
U+9BE1 "鯡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that is also used in Japanese (Kanji) and Korean (Hanja), where it refers to the herring fish. In traditional Chinese, it is pronounced "fēi," and in Japanese it is often read as "nishin," particularly in the context of the Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii), a culturally significant fish in Japanese cuisine and history. The character combines the radical for fish (魚) with the phonetic component 非 (fēi), and it is classified under the Kangxi radical 195 for fish, appearing in historical texts and modern dictionaries for seafood and culinary references across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9BE1 |
| 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 | 鯡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鯡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAF 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9BE1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009BE1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9be1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F3D6 |
| kCCCII | 23582C |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6843 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6843 |
| kCangjie | NFLMY |
| kCantonese | fei1 |
| kCihaiT | 1529.307 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2004.420 |
| kDefinition | herring |
| kEACC | 23582C |
| kFanqie | 方味 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2131.1 |
| kGB1 | 8678 |
| kHanYu | 74695.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74695.130:fèi,fēi |
| kIICore | CT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2004.420 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74695.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1472.350 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-766E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F3D6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-724C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8D16 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-712C |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6843 |
| kJapanese | ヒ にしん |
| kJapaneseKun | NISHIN |
| kJapaneseOn | HI |
| kJis0 | 8244 |
| kKangXi | 1472.350 |
| kKorean | PI |
| kMandarin | fèi |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029209 MJ029209:E0102 MJ029210:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 46243:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5302 |
| kPhonetic | 365* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7329+175.8.11 C+7329+195.11.8 V+13632+175.8.11 V+13632+195.11.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.8 |
| kSBGY | 359.27 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鲱" U+9CB1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 802.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fēi粵fei1 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 321:367 |