U+9BFD "鯽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9BFD "鯽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a type of fish, specifically the crucian carp or goldfish, commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In modern Chinese, it is often used in the word for "crucian carp" (鲫鱼), a freshwater fish valued for its culinary uses. Historically, this character appears in classical texts and traditional literature, reflecting its long-standing role in aquatic terminology. Its composition includes the radical for "fish" (魚) on the left, indicating its meaning, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which varies by language—approximately jì in Mandarin, sabi in Japanese, and jeok in Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+9BFD
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 鯽
HTML Hex Encoding 鯽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAF 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9BFD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009BFD
C/C++/Java Escape \u9bfd

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

kAlternateTotalStrokes 20:J
kBigFive C356
kCCCII 216223
kCNS1986 1-7822
kCNS1992 1-7822
kCangjie NFAIL
kCantonese zik1
kCihaiT 1529.603
kCowles 4487.5
kDaeJaweon 2006.060
kDefinition Carassius auratus, crucian carp
kEACC 396223
kFanqie 資昔 子力
kFenn 364K
kFennIndex 36.02
kFourCornerCode 2732.0
kGB1 8674
kHanYu 74693.100
kHanyuPinyin 74693.100:zéi,jì
kHKGlyph 4653
kIICore ATHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 2006.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74693.100
kIRGKangXi 1474.060
kIRG_GSource G1-766A
kIRG_HSource HB1-C356
kIRG_JSource J13-7E4E
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8D3F
kIRG_KSource K2-713B
kIRG_TSource T1-7822
kJapanese セキ シャク ショク ソク ゾク ふな
kJIS0213 1,94,46
kJapaneseKun FUNA
kJapaneseOn SEKI SHAKU SHOKU SOKU ZOKU
kJis1 7503
kKangXi 1474.060
kKorean CUK
kMandarin zéi
kMatthews 498
kMeyerWempe 3264a
kMojiJoho MJ029245 MJ029245:E0101 MJ029246:E0102
kMorohashi 46304 46304:E0101
kNelson 5312
kPhonetic 165
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+15338+195.11.9
kRSUnicode 195.7
kSBGY 516.40 527.43
kSimplifiedVariant "鲫" U+9CAB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 801.02 804.01
kSMSZD2003Readings jì粵zik1
kTaiwanTelegraph 7651
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 261:331