U+9C9C "鲜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鲜
U+9C9C "鲜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "fresh" or "rare," often used to describe food that is newly harvested or not preserved, such as fresh fish or vegetables. It combines the radical for "fish" on the left and the component for "sheep" on the right, reflecting its historical association with delicious or savory tastes. In addition to its literal meaning, "鲜" can denote something vivid or new, and it appears in common words like "新鲜" meaning fresh, "鲜花" meaning fresh flowers, and "鲜美" meaning delicious. The character also holds cultural significance in East Asian cuisine, where freshness is highly valued, and it is used in names and poetic expressions to convey a sense of liveliness or rarity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9C9C |
| 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 | 鲜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鲜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB2 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9C9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009C9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9c9c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276179 |
| kCangjie | NMTQ |
| kCantonese | sin1 |
| kDefinition | fresh; delicious; attractive |
| kEACC | 276179 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2815 |
| kGB0 | 4742 |
| kHanYu | 74689.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xiān(182) xian(66) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74689.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1480.511 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F4A |
| kTGH | 2013:3135 |
| kKangXi | 1480.511 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7639 |
| kMandarin | xiān |
| kRSUnicode | 195'.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 397.150:xiān 399.070:xiǎn |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鮮" U+9BAE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1245.020:xiān 1249.090:xiǎn |