U+9CB8 "鲸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CB8 "鲸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a whale, specifically denoting the large marine mammal known for its size and presence in oceans around the world. This ideograph is commonly used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it appears in contexts related to marine biology, literature, and cultural symbolism. Its structure combines the radical for "fish" (鱼) with a phonetic component, reflecting the character's meaning and pronunciation in various East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CB8
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	鲸
HTML Hex Encoding	鲸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB2 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CB8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CB8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9cb8

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	27617D
kCangjie	NMYRF
kCantonese	king4
kDefinition	whale
kEACC	27617D
kFourCornerCode	2019
kGB0	3008
kHanYu	74698.070
kHanyuPinlu	jīng(64)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74698.070
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-3E28
kTGH	2013:3366
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7650
kMandarin	jīng
kRSUnicode	195'.8
kTGHZ2013	179.070:jīng
kTotalStrokes	16
kTraditionalVariant	"鯨" U+9BE8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0595.010:jīng