U+9BEA "鯪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9BEA "鯪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally refers to a type of fish, specifically the mud carp or a similar species from the carp family, and it is used in contexts of East Asian ichthyology and cuisine. In modern usage, particularly in Cantonese, it commonly denotes the dace fish, which is often processed into a popular canned or fermented product. The character combines the radical for fish on the left with a phonetic component on the right, following the standard structure of many Chinese logographs, and it appears in historical texts and contemporary dictionaries as part of the broader CJK unified ideograph set.

General Properties

Code Point U+9BEA
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 鯪
HTML Hex Encoding 鯪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAF 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9BEA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009BEA
C/C++/Java Escape \u9bea

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 F3C7
kCCCII 235822
kCNS1986 2-6834
kCNS1992 2-6834
kCangjie NFGCE
kCantonese ling4
kCihaiT 1529.203
kCowles 2375
kDaeJaweon 2005.110
kDefinition carp
kFanqie 力膺
kFourCornerCode 2434.7
kGB1 8676
kGSR 0898h
kHanYu 74694.060
kHanyuPinyin 74694.060:líng
kIICore BTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 2005.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74694.060
kIRGKangXi 1473.140
kIRG_GSource G1-766C
kIRG_HSource HB2-F3C7
kIRG_JSource J14-7D55
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8D0E
kIRG_KSource K2-7131
kIRG_TSource T2-6834
kJapanese リョウ せんざんこう
kJIS0213 2,93,53
kJapaneseKun SENZANKOU
kJapaneseOn RYOU
kJis1 7489
kKangXi 1473.140
kKorean LUNG
kMandarin líng
kMatthews 4068
kMeyerWempe 1588i
kMojiJoho MJ029220
kMorohashi 46259
kPhonetic 810
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19033+195.11.8
kRSUnicode 195.8
kSBGY 199.06
kSimplifiedVariant "鲮" U+9CAE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 802.02
kSMSZD2003Readings líng粵ling4,leng4
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 321:366