U+9BE2 "鯢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鯢
U+9BE2 "鯢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of aquatic creature, specifically the giant salamander or a mythical water monster, and is also used in classical texts to denote a female whale. In modern usage, this ideograph is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified script, and its components include the radical for "fish" on the left, indicating its connection to aquatic life, and a phonetic element on the right. The character is pronounced as "ní" in Mandarin and appears in literary and historical contexts, such as in descriptions of ancient sea creatures or in the term "鯢魚" for the Chinese giant salamander.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9BE2 |
| 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 | 鯢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鯢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAF 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9BE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009BE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9be2 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F3CD |
| kCCCII | 23582F |
| kCNS1986 | 2-683A |
| kCNS1992 | 2-683A |
| kCangjie | NFHXU |
| kCantonese | ngai4 |
| kCihaiT | 1529.107 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2004.430 |
| kDefinition | Cryptobranchus japonicus; a salamander |
| kEACC | 23582F |
| kFanqie | 五稽 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2731.7 |
| kGB1 | 8682 |
| kGSR | 0873l |
| kHangul | 예:1N |
| kHanYu | 74696.180 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74696.180:ní |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2004.430 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74696.180 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1472.370 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7672 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F3CD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-7249 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8D2E |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-677E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-683A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6C6B |
| kJapanese | ゲイ さんしょううお |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SANSHOUUO |
| kJapaneseOn | GEI |
| kJis0 | 8241 |
| kKangXi | 1472.370 |
| kKorean | YEY |
| kMandarin | ní |
| kMatthews | 4667 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029211 |
| kMorohashi | 46245 |
| kPhonetic | 1544 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7326+195.11.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.8 |
| kSBGY | 089.56 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鲵" U+9CB5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 801.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ní粵ngai4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7646 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kVietnamese | nghê |
| kXerox | 314:360 |