U+9CB2 "鲲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鲲
U+9CB2 "鲲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a legendary giant fish from ancient Chinese mythology, most famously described in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi, where the kun transforms into a massive bird called the peng. In modern usage, the character is often associated with immense size or potential and is also applied in contexts such as the name for the Kunming-class submarine or the Beidou satellite navigation system's "Kun" module. The character belongs to the fish radical 鱼 and carries a meaning related to large aquatic creatures, though it is rarely used in everyday language outside of literary or metaphorical references.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9CB2 |
| 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 | 鲲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鲲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB2 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9CB2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009CB2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9cb2 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 295827 |
| kCangjie | NMAPP |
| kCantonese | kwan1 |
| kDefinition | spawn; roe; fry |
| kEACC | 295827 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2611 |
| kGB0 | 8679 |
| kHanYu | 74696.020 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74696.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1480.511 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-766F |
| kTGH | 2013:6141 |
| kKangXi | 1480.511 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7649 |
| kMandarin | kūn |
| kRSUnicode | 195'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 204.110:kūn |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鯤" U+9BE4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0664.080:kūn |