U+9CC9 "鳉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CC9 "鳉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used to refer to a small freshwater fish, often identified as the killifish or medaka, known for its use in rice paddies and as a common subject in East Asian aquaculture. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which encompasses shared East Asian pictographic writing systems. In modern contexts, it appears in biological classifications and literary descriptions, and it has a specific pronunciation in Mandarin as "jiāng," in Cantonese as "zoeng1," and as "medaka" or "killifish" in Japanese usage, reflecting its distinct regional applications across these languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CC9
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	鳉
HTML Hex Encoding	鳉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB3 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CC9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9cc9

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

kCangjie	XNMLM
kCantonese	zoeng1
kDefinition	name of fish
kFourCornerCode	2714.0
kHanYu	74703.151
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74703.141
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G7-2141
kTGH	2013:7968
kKangXi	1480.511
kMandarin	jiāng
kPhonetic	112*
kRSUnicode	195'.9
kTGHZ2013	167.040:jiāng
kTotalStrokes	17
kTraditionalVariant	"鱂" U+9C42 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0559.020:jiāng