U+9CD6 "鳖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CD6 "鳖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a softshell turtle, specifically referring to species in the family Trionychidae. In Chinese, it is commonly used to denote turtles or tortoises, and it carries metaphorical meanings in idiomatic expressions, such as the phrase "瓮中捉鳖" which means "to catch a turtle in a jar" implying something that is certain to be captured. The character combines the radical for fish (鱼) with a phonetic component and is widely used in both everyday language and classical literature to symbolize longevity or stubbornness.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CD6
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	鳖
HTML Hex Encoding	鳖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB3 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CD6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CD6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9cd6

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	27622C
kCangjie	FKNWM
kCantonese	bit3
kDefinition	turtle
kEACC	27622C
kFourCornerCode	9810
kGB0	1778
kHanYu	74710.060
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74710.060
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-316E
kTGH	2013:3470
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	7667
kMandarin	biē
kPhonetic	1013*
kRSUnicode	195'.11
kTGHZ2013	023.100:biē
kTotalStrokes	19
kTraditionalVariant	"鱉" U+9C49 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0073.050:biē