U+9CDD "鳝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鳝
U+9CDD "鳝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of eel, specifically the rice field eel or swamp eel, commonly known as "shàn" in Mandarin. This character combines the radical for fish (鱼) on the left side with the phonetic component (善) on the right, reflecting its meaning and pronunciation. In traditional Chinese culture and cuisine, the character refers to a nutritious and widely consumed freshwater eel, often featured in dishes such as stir-fried eel slices or eel soup. The ideograph is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified script, encoding a common symbol used in written Chinese for centuries to denote this specific animal.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9CDD |
| 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 | 鳝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鳝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB3 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9CDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009CDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9cdd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276229 |
| kCangjie | NMTTR |
| kCantonese | sin5 |
| kDefinition | eel |
| kEACC | 276229 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2816.5 |
| kGB0 | 8713 |
| kHanYu | 74714.190 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74714.190 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1480.511 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-772D |
| kTGH | 2013:6443 |
| kKangXi | 1480.511 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7668 |
| kMandarin | shàn |
| kPhonetic | 1203* |
| kRSUnicode | 195'.12 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 325.170:shàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鱔" U+9C54 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0999.060:shàn |