U+9C57 "鱗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鱗
U+9C57 "鱗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "fish scales" or "scales" in a broader sense, and it is commonly used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This character is composed of the radical for fish (魚) combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in terms related to scale-like textures, such as scale armor or the scaly skin of reptiles and fish. In traditional cultures, it can also carry symbolic meanings associated with dragons and protection, due to the imagery of overlapping scales.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9C57 |
| 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 | 鱗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鱗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB1 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9C57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009C57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9c57 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C5EC |
| kCCCII | 21622A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7C58 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7C58 |
| kCangjie | NFFDQ |
| kCantonese | leon4 |
| kCihaiT | 1531.506 |
| kCowles | 2520 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2010.010 |
| kDefinition | fish scales |
| kEACC | 21622A |
| kFanqie | 力珍 |
| kFenn | 275E |
| kFennIndex | 310.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2935.9 |
| kGB1 | 3359 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0387k |
| kHangul | 린:0N 인:0 |
| kHanYu | 74715.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74715.010:lín |
| kHKGlyph | 4664 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2010.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74715.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1478.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-415B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C5EC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4E5A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D9ED |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5777 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7C58 |
| kJapanese | リン うろこ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | UROKO |
| kJapaneseOn | RIN |
| kJis0 | 4658 |
| kKangXi | 1478.220 |
| kKorean | LIN |
| kLau | 2015 |
| kMandarin | lín |
| kMatthews | 4034 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1702 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029367 MJ029367:E0102 MJ029366:E0103 MJ029368:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 46502:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5334 |
| kPhonetic | 852 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4002+195.11.13 V+14092+195.11.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.12 |
| kSBGY | 103.36 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鳞" U+9CDE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 806.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lín粵leon4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7673 |
| kTang | *lin |
| kTotalStrokes | 23 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 257:061 |