U+9BF0 "鯰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鯰
U+9BF0 "鯰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of catfish, specifically referring to the Siluridae family or similar freshwater fish, often characterized by its whisker-like barbels. In East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese, this ideograph is used in names and contexts related to catfish, including culinary references and folklore, such as the Japanese myth of the namazu, a giant catfish said to cause earthquakes. Its structure combines the radical for fish (魚) with the phonetic component (念), reflecting both its meaning and pronunciation in various dialects. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is encoded for use in digital text across multiple writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9BF0 |
| 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 | 鯰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鯰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAF 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9BF0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009BF0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9bf0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F3CE |
| kCCCII | 235831 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-683B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-683B |
| kCangjie | NFOIP |
| kCantonese | nim4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2005.270 |
| kDefinition | sheat |
| kEACC | 235831 |
| kFanqie | 奴兼 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2833.2 |
| kGB1 | 8683 |
| kHanYu | 74697.130 |
| kIICore | BTJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2005.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74697.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1473.271 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7673 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F3CE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-7250 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-7134 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-683B |
| kJapanese | ネン デン なまず |
| kJapaneseKun | NAMAZU |
| kJapaneseOn | NEN |
| kJis0 | 8248 |
| kKangXi | 1473.271 |
| kMandarin | nián |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029228 MJ029228:E0101 MJ029227:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 46285 46285:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5300 |
| kPhonetic | 976* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7333+195.11.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.8 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9B8E<kSMSZD2003Index:TZ |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鲶" U+9CB6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 802.05 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 321:371 |
| kXHC1983 | 0830.021:nián |