U+9C3A "鰺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C3A "鰺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character historically used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing, where it is generally defined as a term for a type of fish, often specifically referring to the horse mackerel or jack mackerel (Trachurus species). The character is composed of the "fish" radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is shēn, in Japanese is read as aji or saba, and in Korean as sam. Though relatively obscure in modern everyday use, it appears in classical texts and fishing terminology, particularly in Japanese cuisine where aji is a common fish used for sashimi and grilling, linking the character to a tangible cultural practice.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C3A
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	鰺
HTML Hex Encoding	鰺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB0 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C3A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C3A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c3a

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

kCNS1986	E-6023
kCNS1992	3-6023
kCangjie	NFIIH
kCantonese	sam1
kDaeJaweon	2008.330
kDefinition	a horse mackerel
kEACC	47594E
kFourCornerCode	2332.2
kGB3	8833
kHangul	소:1
kHanYu	74712.060
kHanyuPinyin	74712.060:sāo,shēn,cān
kIRGDaeJaweon	2008.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74712.060
kIRGKangXi	1477.060
kIRG_GSource	G3-7841
kIRG_HSource	H-9A7E
kIRG_JSource	J0-724D
kIRG_KSource	K1-647A
kIRG_TSource	T3-6023
kJapanese	ソウ あじ
kJapaneseKun	AJI
kJapaneseOn	SOU
kJis0	8245
kKangXi	1477.060
kKorean	SO
kMandarin	shēn
kMojiJoho	MJ029329 MJ029329:E0101 MJ029328:E0102
kMorohashi	46442 46442:E0101
kNelson	5324
kPhonetic	23*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7330+195.11.11
kRSUnicode	195.11
kSimplifiedVariant	"鲹" U+9CB9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	22
kUnihanCore2020	HJ
kXHC1983	1018.031:shēn