U+9CC3 "鳃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CC3 "鳃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it represents the concept of "gills," the respiratory organs of fish and some amphibians. In simplified Chinese, it is written as "鳃," while its traditional counterpart is "鰓," and it belongs to the radical "⿂" meaning fish, combined with the phonetic component "思" to indicate sound. The character appears in various contexts, from biology textbooks discussing aquatic life to everyday language in phrases like "鱼鳃" (fish gills), underscoring its practical and literal role in describing anatomical features of aquatic animals across East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CC3
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	鳃
HTML Hex Encoding	鳃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB3 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CC3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CC3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9cc3

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	276221
kCangjie	NMWP
kCantonese	soi1
kDefinition	fish gills
kEACC	276221
kFourCornerCode	2613
kGB0	4090
kHanYu	74701.160
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74701.160
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-487A
kTGH	2013:6279
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7658
kMandarin	sāi
kPhonetic	1174*
kRSUnicode	195'.9
kTGHZ2013	319.150:sāi
kTotalStrokes	17
kTraditionalVariant	"鰓" U+9C13 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0981.120:sāi