U+9CE9 "鳩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鳩
U+9CE9 "鳩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji and Chinese character that primarily represents a pigeon or dove, conveying a sense of gathering or assembling, as seen in its traditional composition of a bird radical with a component suggesting a gathering of nine (久). In East Asian cultures, it often appears in words related to turtledoves and figurative expressions, such as the Japanese term "hato" for pigeon, and carries historical or poetic connotations in classical texts. Its use spans from everyday vocabulary to literary contexts, reflecting a consistent association with these birds across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9CE9 |
| 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 | 鳩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鳩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB3 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9CE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009CE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9ce9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9A7 |
| kCCCII | 216230 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-676D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-676D |
| kCangjie | KNHAF |
| kCantonese | gau1 |
| kCihaiT | 1533.501 |
| kCowles | 1567 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2013.120 |
| kDefinition | pigeon, dove; collect, assemble |
| kEACC | 216230 |
| kFanqie | 居求 |
| kFenn | 302E |
| kFennIndex | 83.11 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4702.7 |
| kGB1 | 8015 |
| kGSR | 0992n |
| kHangul | 구:0N |
| kHanYu | 74613.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74613.130:jiū,qiú,zhì |
| kHKGlyph | 4669 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2013.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74613.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1481.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-702F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9A7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4837 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1B5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F4D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-676D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6C6E |
| kJapanese | キュウ ク チ ジ グ はと あつめる |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HATO ATSUMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KYUU KU |
| kJis0 | 4023 |
| kKangXi | 1481.100 |
| kKarlgren | 399 |
| kKorean | KWU |
| kMandarin | jiū |
| kMatthews | 1200 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1063 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029416 |
| kMorohashi | 46648 |
| kNelson | 5342 |
| kPhonetic | 587 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3403+196.11.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 196.2 |
| kSBGY | 208.13 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "鸠" U+9E20 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 808.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiū粵gau1,kau1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7682 |
| kTang | giou |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | cưu |
| kXerox | 270:253 |