U+9CD9 "鳙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CD9 "鳙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that refers to the bighead carp, a species of freshwater fish known scientifically as *Hypophthalmichthys nobilis*. This ideograph combines a radical related to fish with a phonetic component that contributes to its pronunciation, and it is commonly used in East Asian contexts, particularly in Chinese cuisine where the fish is valued for its flesh and its role in traditional dishes such as fish head soup.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CD9
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	鳙
HTML Hex Encoding	鳙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB3 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CD9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CD9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9cd9

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	295921
kCangjie	NMILB
kCantonese	jung4
kDefinition	bighead
kEACC	295921
kFourCornerCode	2012
kGB0	8711
kHanYu	74711.090
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74711.090
kIRGKangXi	1480.511
kIRG_GSource	G0-772B
kTGH	2013:6407
kKangXi	1480.511
kMainlandTelegraph	9663
kMandarin	yōng
kRSUnicode	195'.11
kTGHZ2013	441.170:yōng
kTotalStrokes	19
kTraditionalVariant	"鱅" U+9C45 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1391.040:yōng