U+9C8E "鲎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C8E "鲎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the horseshoe crab, a marine arthropod species found in coastal waters of East and Southeast Asia. In modern Chinese, it is commonly used in the word "鲎鱼" (hòuyú), though it is also recognized in traditional contexts for its historical significance, as the creature's blue blood was once used in traditional medicine or lunar calendar references. The character combines the radical for "fish" (鱼) with a phonetic component, reflecting its zoological classification and pronunciation in Mandarin as "hòu".

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C8E
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	鲎
HTML Hex Encoding	鲎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C8E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c8e

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	295955
kCangjie	FBNWM
kCantonese	hau6
kDefinition	king crab
kEACC	295955
kFourCornerCode	9010
kGB0	8655
kHanYu	74683.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74683.070
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-7657
kTGH	2013:5591
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7670
kMandarin	hòu
kRSUnicode	195'.5
kSMSZD2003Index	799.06
kTGHZ2013	139.160:hòu
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"鱟" U+9C5F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0470.050:hòu