U+9CC5 "鳅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9CC5 "鳅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the loach, a small bottom-dwelling freshwater fish often found in muddy waters across East Asia. In modern Chinese, it is commonly used in the word "泥鳅" (ní qiū), which specifically refers to the loach, a species valued in culinary traditions for its tender flesh and perceived health benefits, such as nourishing the body and improving vitality. The character itself belongs to the radical for "fish" (鱼) and has historical roots in classical texts, where it occasionally appears in agricultural or dietary contexts. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is shared across multiple East Asian writing systems, though its usage and pronunciation vary slightly between languages, such as "dojō" in Japanese.

General Properties

Code Point U+9CC5
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 鳅
HTML Hex Encoding 鳅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB3 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9CC5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009CC5
C/C++/Java Escape \u9cc5

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 276222
kCangjie NMHDF
kCantonese cau1
kDefinition loach
kEACC 276222
kFourCornerCode 2918
kGB0 8690
kHanYu 74702.070
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74702.070
kIRGKangXi 1480.511
kIRG_GSource G0-767A
kTGH 2013:6280
kKangXi 1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph 7655
kMandarin qiū
kRSUnicode 195'.9
kTGHZ2013 305.210:qiū
kTotalStrokes 17
kTraditionalVariant "鰍" U+9C0D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0939.060:qiū