U+9CA5 "鲥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CA5 "鲥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the Reeves shad, a species of fish in the herring family historically prized in Chinese cuisine for its tender meat and rich flavor, particularly during its brief spring migration season along the southeastern coast of China. This ideograph combines the radical for fish (鱼) with the phonetic component 时 (meaning time or season), alluding to the fish's seasonal appearance and its cultural association with timely, seasonal dining in traditional Chinese gastronomy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CA5
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	鲥
HTML Hex Encoding	鲥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CA5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9ca5

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	29586E
kCangjie	NMADI
kCantonese	si4
kDefinition	reeves' shad; hilsa herring
kEACC	29586E
kFourCornerCode	2410
kGB0	8669
kHanYu	74691.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74691.120
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-7665
kTGH	2013:5972
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7661
kMandarin	shí
kRSUnicode	195'.7
kSMSZD2003Index	801.03
kTGHZ2013	335.120:shí
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"鰣" U+9C23 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1043.030:shí