U+9CAD "鲭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9CAD "鲭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a type of fish, specifically the mackerel or chub mackerel, and it is commonly used in modern Mandarin and Japanese writing to refer to various species within the Scombridae family. In Chinese, it is pronounced "qīng" and appears in terms like "鲭鱼" (qīngyú) meaning mackerel, while in Japanese, it is read "saba" and is a staple ingredient in dishes such as grilled mackerel or sushi. The character is composed of the radical for "fish" (鱼) on the left, indicating its aquatic meaning, and a phonetic component (青) on the right, which hints at its pronunciation and also carries the connotation of "blue" or "green," referencing the fish's coloring. Historically, this character has been documented in ancient Chinese texts, including the "Shuowen Jiezi" dictionary from the Han dynasty, where it was classified under the fish radical with a description of a common edible marine fish. Thus, U+9CAD serves as a practic

General Properties

Code Point U+9CAD
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 鲭
HTML Hex Encoding 鲭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB2 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9CAD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009CAD
C/C++/Java Escape \u9cad

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 29577A
kCangjie NMQMB
kCantonese cing1
kDefinition mackerel
kEACC 29577A
kFourCornerCode 2512
kGB0 8675
kHanYu 74694.040
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74694.040
kIRGKangXi 1480.511
kIRG_GSource G0-766B
kTGH 2013:7885
kKangXi 1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph 7645
kMandarin qīng
kPhonetic 203*
kRSUnicode 195'.8
kTGHZ2013 304.010:qīng
kTotalStrokes 16
kTraditionalVariant "鯖" U+9BD6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0932.030:qīng 1472.020:zhēng