U+9CE8 "鳨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CE8 "鳨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character classified under the radical for "bird" (鸟 or 鳥) and is typically considered a variant or archaic form. Its exact meaning is obscure in modern Chinese, but historical references and dictionary entries suggest it may relate to a specific type of bird, possibly a cormorant or other aquatic bird, or it could serve as a phonetic component in some words. This character does not appear in common usage today and is primarily encountered in ancient texts, technical character sets, or linguistic studies of historical Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CE8
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	鳨
HTML Hex Encoding	鳨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB3 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CE8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CE8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9ce8

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	257664
kCNS1986	E-4564
kCNS1992	3-4564
kCangjie	XHFKS
kCantonese	lik6
kDaeJaweon	2013.100
kFanqie	林直
kGB3	6085
kHanYu	74614.100
kHanyuPinyin	74614.100:lì
kIRGDaeJaweon	2013.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74614.100
kIRGKangXi	1481.090
kIRG_GSource	G3-5C75
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-029415
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8DE3
kIRG_TSource	T3-4564
kJapanese	リョク リキ
kKangXi	1481.090
kMandarin	lì
kMojiJoho	MJ029415
kMorohashi	46646
kRSUnicode	196.2
kSBGY	524.46
kTotalStrokes	13