U+9CB6 "鲶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CB6 "鲶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of catfish, specifically the sheatfish or Amur catfish, and is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese. In Chinese, it is pronounced "nián" and appears in words like "鲶鱼" meaning catfish, while in Japanese it is read as "namazu" and is famously associated with folklore about a giant catfish causing earthquakes. The character combines the radical for "fish" on the left with the phonetic component "念" on the right, reflecting its meaning and pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CB6
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	鲶
HTML Hex Encoding	鲶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CB6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CB6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9cb6

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	295831
kCangjie	NMOIP
kCantonese	nim4
kDefinition	sheat
kEACC	295831
kFourCornerCode	2813
kGB0	8683
kHanYu	74697.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74697.140
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-7673
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7664
kMandarin	nián
kPhonetic	976*
kRSUnicode	195'.8
kTotalStrokes	16
kTraditionalVariant	"鯰" U+9BF0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G