U+9C5F "鱟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鱟
U+9C5F "鱟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that refers to the horseshoe crab, a marine arthropod that has existed for hundreds of millions of years and is considered a living fossil. In traditional Chinese cuisine and culture, this character is notably associated with the dish "horseshoe crab egg" (鱟卵) or various preparations of the creature, though it also appears in historical texts and regional dialects to denote the animal itself. The character is composed of the radical for fish (魚) on the left and a phonetic component (後) on the right, reflecting its meaning as a marine creature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9C5F |
| 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 | 鱟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鱟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB1 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9C5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009C5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9c5f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C64D |
| kCCCII | 235955 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7C78 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7C78 |
| kCangjie | HBNWF |
| kCantonese | hau6 |
| kCihaiT | 1532.305 |
| kCowles | 1017 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2010.260 |
| kDefinition | horseshoe crab |
| kEACC | 235955 |
| kFanqie | 胡遘 烏酷 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7733.6 |
| kGB1 | 8655 |
| kHanYu | 74717.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74717.080:hòu |
| kIICore | ATH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2010.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74717.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1478.400 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7657 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C64D |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7D75 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8DC0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-716F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7C78 |
| kJapanese | コウ グ ヨク オク アク ボウ モ かぶとがに |
| kJIS0213 | 2,93,85 |
| kJapaneseKun | KABUTOGANI |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU GU YOKU OKU |
| kJis1 | 7544 |
| kKangXi | 1478.400 |
| kKorean | HWU |
| kMandarin | hòu |
| kMatthews | 2151 |
| kMeyerWempe | 687b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029378 |
| kMorohashi | 46528 |
| kPhonetic | 494 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19059+195.11.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 195.13 |
| kSBGY | 437.37 459.38 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鲎" U+9C8E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 807.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hòu粵hau6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7670 |
| kTotalStrokes | 24 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 277:132 |
| kXHC1983 | 0470.051:hòu |