U+9C5B "鱛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9C5B "鱛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character classified under the Kangxi radical for "fish" (⿂) and containing a phonetic component related to the word for "increase" or "layer." Its standard definition in Mandarin Chinese refers to a type of fish, specifically the Japanese sea bass or a similar fish species, and it is occasionally used in Japanese (often transliterated as "kamasu") as part of personal or place names. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese writing but is preserved within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block to maintain historical and linguistic consistency across East Asian text systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+9C5B
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 鱛
HTML Hex Encoding 鱛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB1 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9C5B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009C5B
C/C++/Java Escape \u9c5b

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

kCangjie NFCWA
kCantonese zang1
kDaeJaweon 2010.160
kDefinition fish name
kHanYu 74714.111
kIRGDaeJaweon 2010.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74714.111
kIRGKangXi 1478.311
kIRG_GSource GE-5649
kIRG_JSource J14-7D73
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8DAD
kJapanese えそ
kJIS0213 2,93,83
kJapaneseKun ESO
kJis1 7541
kKangXi 1478.311
kMandarin zēng
kMojiJoho MJ029373
kMorohashi 46518
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19057+195.11.12
kRSUnicode 195.12
kTotalStrokes 23