U+9BE8 "鯨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鯨

U+9BE8 "鯨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a whale, specifically used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) contexts, where it is pronounced as "jīng" in Mandarin, "kujira" in Japanese, and "gyeong" in Korean. This ideograph is composed of the radical "魚" (fish) on the left and the phonetic component "京" on the right, reflecting its meaning as a large marine mammal. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which standardizes thousands of East Asian characters for digital text processing. The character appears in classical literature and modern usage alike, symbolizing size and the ocean, and it is often used in compound words like "鯨魚" (whale) in Chinese. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across platforms and languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9BE8
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	鯨
HTML Hex Encoding	鯨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xAF 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9BE8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009BE8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9be8

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	C448
kCCCII	21617D
kCNS1986	1-7954
kCNS1992	1-7954
kCangjie	NFYRF
kCantonese	king4
kCihaiT	1529.404
kCowles	1980
kDaeJaweon	2005.090
kDefinition	whale
kEACC	21617D
kFanqie	渠京
kFenn	747G
kFennIndex	79.04 82.08
kFourCornerCode	2039.6
kGB1	3008
kGSR	0755f
kHangul	경:0N
kHanYu	74698.060
kHanyuPinlu	jīng(64)
kHanyuPinyin	74698.060:jīng,qíng
kHKGlyph	4655
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	2005.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74698.060
kIRGKangXi	1473.120
kIRG_GSource	G1-3E28
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C448
kIRG_JSource	J0-375F
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-CFD8
kIRG_KSource	K0-4C74
kIRG_TSource	T1-7954
kIRG_VSource	V1-6C6C
kJapanese	ゲイケイギョウキョウゴウくじら
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	KUJIRA
kJapaneseOn	GEI
kJis0	2363
kKangXi	1473.120
kKarlgren	392
kKorean	KYENG
kLau	1700
kMandarin	jīng
kMatthews	1158
kMeyerWempe	1172
kMojiJoho	MJ029217 MJ029217:E0101 MJ029218:E0102
kMorohashi	46257 46257:E0101
kNelson	5307
kPhonetic	622
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1845+195.11.8
kRSUnicode	195.8
kSBGY	187.17
kSimplifiedVariant	"鲸" U+9CB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	802.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	jīng粵king4
kTaiwanTelegraph	7650
kTang	*ghiæng
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	kình
kXerox	260:274