U+9C9D "鲝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9C9D "鲝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that combines the radical for fish (鱼) with the phonetic component "乍" or related elements, and it traditionally refers to a type of preserved or fermented fish, often interpreted as fish that has been salted or dried. Historically, this character appears in classical Chinese texts and dictionaries, where it denotes a specific method of processing fish for storage or consumption, though it is considered a rare or obsolete character in modern standard Mandarin usage. Its structure reflects the semantic field of seafood preparation in traditional Chinese culture, and it is included in the Unicode Standard to support historical and scholarly textual representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+9C9D
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 鲝
HTML Hex Encoding 鲝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB2 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9C9D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009C9D
C/C++/Java Escape \u9c9d

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 295758
kCangjie TQNWM
kCantonese zaa2
kDefinition minced and salted fish; a place in Sichuan
kFourCornerCode 8010.6
kGB8 1481
kHanYu 74689.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74689.030
kIRGKangXi 1480.511
kIRG_GSource G8-2E71
kTGH 2013:7719
kKangXi 1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph 9651
kMandarin zhǎ
kRSUnicode 195'.6
kSMSZD2003Index 800.02
kTGHZ2013 463.010:zhǎ
kTotalStrokes 14
kTraditionalVariant "鮺" U+9BBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1448.110:zhǎ