U+9C87 "鲇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C87 "鲇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of catfish, specifically the species Silurus asotus, commonly known as the Amur catfish or sheatfish. This ideograph is used in East Asian languages, particularly in Chinese and Japanese contexts, where it appears in the name of the fish and can also be found in traditional literary works and regional vocabulary. The character combines the radical for "fish" with a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic and phonetic structure.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C87
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	鲇
HTML Hex Encoding	鲇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C87
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C87
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c87

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	295729
kCangjie	NMYR
kCantonese	nim4
kDefinition	sheatfish, Parasilurus asotus
kEACC	295729
kFourCornerCode	2116
kGB0	8651
kHanYu	74681.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74681.010
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-7653
kTGH	2013:5527
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7630
kMandarin	nián
kPhonetic	177*
kRSUnicode	195'.5
kTGHZ2013	266.040:nián
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"鮎" U+9B8E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0830.020:nián