U+9C18 "鰘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C18 "鰘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that falls under the ideographic script used for writing Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese in traditional contexts. Its composition combines the radical for fish (魚) with the phonetic component 室, possibly suggesting a meaning related to a type of fish, though it is not commonly used in modern standard texts. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which aims to encode Han characters from multiple East Asian languages into a single standard set. Because of its rarity, U+9C18 is primarily of interest to scholars of historical texts, specialized dictionaries, or large character sets rather than everyday language users.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C18
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	鰘
HTML Hex Encoding	鰘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB0 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C18
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C18
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c18

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

kCangjie	NFJMG
kCantonese	sat1
kHanYu	74703.152
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74703.151
kIRGKangXi	1475.161
kIRG_GSource	GE-563D
kIRG_JSource	J14-7D5F
kJapanese	むろあじ
kJIS0213	2,93,63
kJapaneseKun	MUROAJI
kJis1	7511
kKangXi	1475.161
kMandarin	shì
kMojiJoho	MJ029281
kMorohashi	46355
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19040+195.11.9
kRSUnicode	195.9
kTotalStrokes	20