U+9C20 "鰠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C20 "鰠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used primarily in classical or literary contexts, and it represents a type of fish, specifically a kind of carp or a mythical fish often associated with swiftness or agility in ancient texts. Its structure combines the radical for "fish" (魚) on the left, with a phonetic component on the right, and it is read as "sāo" in modern Mandarin. This character appears in historical Chinese dictionaries and literature, though it is not commonly used in contemporary everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C20
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	鰠
HTML Hex Encoding	鰠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB0 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C20
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C20
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c20

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

kCCCII	23586A
kCangjie	NFEII
kCantonese	sou1
kDaeJaweon	2007.170
kDefinition	carp
kFanqie	蘇遭
kGB1	8694
kHanYu	74708.100
kHanyuPinyin	74708.100:sāo
kIRGDaeJaweon	2007.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74708.100
kIRGKangXi	1475.310
kIRG_GSource	G1-767E
kIRG_HSource	H-9A7A
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-029292
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8D65
kIRG_TSource	T5-724B
kJapanese	ソウ
kKangXi	1475.310
kMandarin	sāo
kMojiJoho	MJ029292
kMorohashi	46372
kPhonetic	224
kRSUnicode	195.9
kSBGY	157.07
kSimplifiedVariant	"鳋" U+9CCB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	321:373