U+9CB5 "鲵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CB5 "鲵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the giant salamander, specifically referring to the Cryptobranchidae family of amphibians. In traditional usage, it denotes a large, aquatic creature often associated with riverine habitats in East Asia, and it appears in classical texts and modern contexts such as zoological terminology. The character is composed of the radical for fish (鱼) and the phonetic component 兒, reflecting its classification as a water-dwelling animal. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is encoded for use in digital text processing across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CB5
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	鲵
HTML Hex Encoding	鲵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CB5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CB5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9cb5

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	29582F
kCangjie	NMHXU
kCantonese	ngai4
kDefinition	Cryptobranchus japonicus; a salamander
kEACC	29582F
kFourCornerCode	2711
kGB0	8682
kHanYu	74697.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74697.010
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-7672
kTGH	2013:6144
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7646
kMandarin	ní
kRSUnicode	195'.8
kTGHZ2013	265.060:ní
kTotalStrokes	16
kTraditionalVariant	"鯢" U+9BE2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0826.110:ní