U+9C2F "鰯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鰯
U+9C2F "鰯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of fish, specifically the sardine or pilchard, and is commonly used in Japanese as the kanji for "iwashi" which refers to the same fish. This ideograph is composed of the radical for "fish" on the left side and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its classification within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set. Historically, the character has been employed in East Asian texts to denote this small, oily fish that holds cultural and culinary significance, particularly in Japan where it is a staple ingredient in various dishes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9C2F |
| 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 | 鰯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鰯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB0 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9C2F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009C2F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9c2f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 235869 |
| kCangjie | NFNMM |
| kCantonese | joek6 |
| kCihaiT | 1530.608 |
| kDefinition | a sardine |
| kEACC | 235869 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2732.7 |
| kGB3 | 8866 |
| kHangul | 약:1 |
| kHanYu | 74708.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74708.090:ruò |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74708.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1476.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-7862 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9ADA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3073 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6676 |
| kIRG_TSource | TF-692A |
| kJapanese | いわし |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | IWASHI |
| kJis0 | 1683 |
| kKangXi | 1476.251 |
| kKorean | YAK |
| kMandarin | ruò |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029312 MJ029313:E0102 MJ029312:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 46413 46413:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5318 |
| kPhonetic | 1524 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1207+195.11.10 V+7636+195.11.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.10 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𱈍" U+3120D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 21 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |