U+9C85 "鲅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C85 "鲅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the mackerel, a type of fish. It is composed of the radical for "fish" (鱼) and the phonetic component "ba" (巴), reflecting its pronunciation in Mandarin as "bà". This character is commonly used in modern Chinese, particularly in names like "鲅鱼圈" (Bà yú quān), a port city in Liaoning province, and appears in culinary contexts referring to mackerel dishes. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block ensures consistent representation across digital systems for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C85
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	鲅
HTML Hex Encoding	鲅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C85
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C85
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c85

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	295723
kCangjie	NMIKE
kCantonese	bat6
kDefinition	fish name
kEACC	29593A
kFourCornerCode	2314
kGB0	8649
kHanYu	74680.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74680.110
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-7651
kTGH	2013:5525
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	9641
kMandarin	bà
kRSUnicode	195'.5
kTGHZ2013	007.150:bà
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"鮁" U+9B81 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0019.010:bà 0080.060:bō