U+9BE5 "鯥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9BE5 "鯥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that traditionally refers to a type of legendary fish or aquatic creature, sometimes described in classical texts as a kind of fish that resembles a snake or eel and is said to live in water. Its composition combines the radical for fish (魚) with the phonetic component 鹿 (deer), suggesting a compound meaning based on sound and semantics. Primarily encountered in ancient Chinese dictionaries and mythological references, the character is not commonly used in modern writing, though it retains significance for scholars studying historical Chinese language or traditional bestiaries. As a glyph within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it occupies a place in the vast repertoire of over 70,000 encoded Han characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9BE5
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	鯥
HTML Hex Encoding	鯥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAF 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9BE5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009BE5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9be5

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	F3D4
kCCCII	235821
kCNS1986	2-6841
kCNS1992	2-6841
kCangjie	NFGCG
kCantonese	luk6
kCihaiT	1529.308
kDaeJaweon	2005.020
kFanqie	力竹
kFourCornerCode	2431.4
kGB3	8818
kHanYu	74694.080
kHanyuPinyin	74694.080:lù
kIRGDaeJaweon	2005.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74694.080
kIRGKangXi	1473.040
kIRG_GSource	G3-7832
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F3D4
kIRG_JSource	J13-7E4C
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8D0C
kIRG_KSource	K2-712E
kIRG_TSource	T2-6841
kJapanese	リク ロク むつ
kJIS0213	1,94,44
kJapaneseKun	MUTSU
kJapaneseOn	RIKU ROKU
kJis1	7487
kKangXi	1473.040
kMandarin	lù
kMojiJoho	MJ029214
kMorohashi	46249
kPhonetic	850*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17212+195.11.8
kRSUnicode	195.8
kSBGY	454.23
kSimplifiedVariant	"𱇶" U+311F6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HMT