U+9C98 "鲘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9C98 "鲘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used primarily in traditional and simplified Chinese writing systems, where it represents a type of fish, specifically the "Chinese herring" or a similar marine species, often referenced in historical or regional contexts. Its composition includes the radical for "fish" (鱼) on the left, indicating its aquatic meaning, combined with a phonetic component on the right that suggests pronunciation, typically read as "hòu" in Mandarin. This character appears in classical literature and certain place names, such as in the name of a town or county in Guangdong province, China, but is less common in modern everyday usage, making it a specialized or rare glyph within the CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point U+9C98
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 鲘
HTML Hex Encoding 鲘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB2 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9C98
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009C98
C/C++/Java Escape \u9c98

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 295751
kCangjie NMHMR
kCantonese hau6
kFourCornerCode 2216.1
kGB8 1321
kHanYu 74687.091
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74687.091
kIRGKangXi 1480.511
kIRG_GSource G8-2D35
kTGH 2013:7704
kKangXi 1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph 7636
kMandarin hòu
kPhonetic 449*
kRSUnicode 195'.6
kTGHZ2013 139.170:hòu
kTotalStrokes 14
kTraditionalVariant "鮜" U+9B9C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0470.030:hòu