U+9CA0 "鲠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CA0 "鲠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "fish bone" or "to choke on a bone," and it is also used metaphorically to describe something that is stuck or obstructing, such as a difficult problem or a stubborn personality. In traditional Chinese medicine and literature, the character can convey the sense of a thorny or uncomfortable situation, and it appears in compounds like "耿直" (gěng zhí) to imply uprightness or bluntness.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CA0
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	鲠
HTML Hex Encoding	鲠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CA0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CA0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9ca0

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	29575F
kCangjie	NMMLK
kCantonese	gang2
kDefinition	fish bones; honest, upright
kEACC	29575F
kFourCornerCode	2114
kGB0	8665
kHanYu	74690.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74690.090
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-7661
kTGH	2013:5968
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7643
kMandarin	gěng
kPhonetic	578*
kRSUnicode	195'.7
kTGHZ2013	113.100:gěng
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"鯁" U+9BC1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0378.060:gěng