U+9C7F "鱿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C7F "鱿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily refers to a squid or cuttlefish, belonging to the radical for fish (鱼) and commonly used in modern Mandarin as part of the word 鱿鱼 (yóuyú), meaning "squid." Its structure combines the phonetic component 尤 (yóu) with the semantic radical for fish, reflecting its meaning as a sea creature. In Unicode, it is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes characters used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, and it plays a role in culinary, biological, and cultural contexts, such as in the popular dish squid noodles.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C7F
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	鱿
HTML Hex Encoding	鱿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB1 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C7F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C7F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c7f

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

kCCCII	276175
kCangjie	NMIKU
kCantonese	jau4
kDefinition	cuttlefish
kEACC	276175
kFourCornerCode	2311
kGB0	8647
kHanYu	74676.140
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74676.140
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-764F
kTGH	2013:5235
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7626
kMandarin	yóu
kPhonetic	1511*
kRSUnicode	195'.4
kTGHZ2013	443.150:yóu
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"魷" U+9B77 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1397.080:yóu