U+9C96 "鲖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9C96 "鲖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of freshwater fish, specifically known as the "sheatfish" or related species within the catfish family, often associated with the genus Silurus. This character combines the radical for fish (鱼) on the left with the phonetic component "同" (tóng) on the right, reflecting its meaning and pronunciation in Mandarin as "tóng". Historically, the term appears in classical Chinese texts and regional dialects, where it denotes a large, whiskered fish found in rivers and lakes, valued for its culinary use and symbolic associations in folklore.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9C96
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	鲖
HTML Hex Encoding	鲖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9C96
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009C96
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9c96

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	295747
kCangjie	NMBMR
kCantonese	tung4
kDefinition	snakefish
kFourCornerCode	2712.0
kGB8	1319
kHanYu	74686.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74686.120
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G8-2D33
kTGH	2013:7702
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7628
kMandarin	tóng
kPhonetic	1407*
kRSUnicode	195'.6
kTGHZ2013	370.070:tóng
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"鮦" U+9BA6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1154.060:tóng