U+9C8F "鲏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C8F "鲏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of fish, specifically the bitterling or a small freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae. It combines the radical for fish (鱼) with a phonetic component suggesting its pronunciation, which is often read as "pí" in modern Mandarin. Historically, this character appears in classical texts and dictionaries like the Kangxi Zidian, where it denotes a fish found in rivers and lakes, sometimes associated with a scaly or flattened body. In contemporary usage, it remains a relatively rare character, mostly encountered in specialized biological contexts or historical literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C8F
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	鲏
HTML Hex Encoding	鲏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C8F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C8F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c8f

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	29567E
kCangjie	NMDHE
kCantonese	pei4
kDefinition	Spanish mackerel
kFourCornerCode	2414.7
kHanYu	74684.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74684.020
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G7-213B
kTGH	2013:7563
kJapaneseKun	KAWAHAGI
kJapaneseOn	HI
kKangXi	1480.511
kMandarin	pí
kPhonetic	1038*
kRSUnicode	195'.5
kTGHZ2013	281.090:pí
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"鮍" U+9B8D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0869.040:pí