U+9C3B "鰻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鰻
U+9C3B "鰻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character representing the eel, a long snake-like fish often found in East Asian cuisines and aquatic environments. It is composed of the radical for fish (魚) and the phonetic component "曼," reflecting its classification as a type of fish while hinting at its elongated form. In modern usage, the character appears in contexts such as Japanese (as "unagi") and Korean (as "man") where grilled eel dishes are celebrated, and it holds cultural significance in festivals and culinary traditions across East Asia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9C3B |
| 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 | 鰻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鰻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB0 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9C3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009C3B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9c3b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C5C1 |
| kCCCII | 216228 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7C2D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7C2D |
| kCangjie | NFAWE |
| kCantonese | maan6 |
| kCihaiT | 1531.102 |
| kCowles | 2580 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2008.340 |
| kDefinition | eel |
| kEACC | 216228 |
| kFanqie | 母官 無販 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2634.7 |
| kGB1 | 8709 |
| kHangul | 만:0N |
| kHanYu | 74710.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74710.080:mán |
| kHKGlyph | 4662 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2008.340 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74710.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1477.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7729 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C5C1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3137 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DACC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5844 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7C2D |
| kJapanese | バン マン うなぎ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | UNAGI |
| kJapaneseOn | BAN MAN |
| kJis0 | 1723 |
| kKangXi | 1477.070 |
| kKorean | MAN |
| kMandarin | mán |
| kMatthews | 4341 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1747e |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029331 MJ029331:E0102 MJ029330:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 46443:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5326 |
| kPhonetic | 867 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1241+195.11.11 V+20255+195.10.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.11 |
| kSBGY | 126.62 398.05 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鳗" U+9CD7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 805.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | mán粵maan6,maan4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7665 |
| kTotalStrokes | 22 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 276:305 |