U+9BE4 "鯤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9BE4 "鯤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a mythical giant fish from ancient Chinese folklore, most famously described in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi, where it transforms into the immense bird Peng. This character is composed of the radical for fish on the left side and the phonetic component "kun" on the right, and it has been used in classical literature to symbolize vastness and transformation. In modern usage, it appears in names, poetry, and cultural references, and it is also utilized in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja with similar meanings, though in simplified Chinese it is written as 鲲.

General Properties

Code Point U+9BE4
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 鯤
HTML Hex Encoding 鯤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAF 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9BE4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009BE4
C/C++/Java Escape \u9be4

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 F3CB
kCCCII 235827
kCNS1986 2-6838
kCNS1992 2-6838
kCangjie NFAPP
kCantonese kwan1
kCihaiT 1529.201
kDaeJaweon 2005.010
kDefinition spawn; roe; fry
kEACC 235827
kFanqie 古渾
kFourCornerCode 2631.1
kGB1 8679
kGSR 0417i
kHangul 곤:0N
kHanYu 74696.010
kHanyuPinyin 74696.010:kūn
kIICore ATJHKP
kIRGDaeJaweon 2005.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74696.010
kIRGKangXi 1473.020
kIRG_GSource G1-766F
kIRG_HSource HB2-F3CB
kIRG_JSource J0-724A
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D0B3
kIRG_KSource K0-4D66
kIRG_TSource T2-6838
kJapanese コン ゴン
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun HARAGO GIGI
kJapaneseOn KON
kJis0 8242
kKangXi 1473.020
kKorean KON
kMandarin kūn
kMatthews 3682
kMeyerWempe 1388f
kMojiJoho MJ029213
kMorohashi 46247
kPhonetic 728
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7327+195.11.8
kRSUnicode 195.8
kSBGY 116.45
kSimplifiedVariant "鲲" U+9CB2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 801.13
kSMSZD2003Readings kūn粵kwan1
kTaiwanTelegraph 7649
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 310:115