U+9CF2 "鳲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CF2 "鳲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character classified under the “CJK Unified Ideographs” block, which encompasses logographic characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. This specific glyph represents the shī bird, traditionally identified as the hoopoe or a similar crested bird, and appears in classical Chinese texts such as the Erya, an early dictionary, where it is described as a bird that builds its nest in mulberry trees. Historically, the character was also used in the Book of Songs (Shijing) in the phrase “鳲鳩” (shī jiū), referring to the cuckoo or a type of dove known for its constant singing, symbolizing diligence or a call to work. In modern usage, it is extremely uncommon and is often only encountered in specialized linguistic, literary, or historical contexts, particularly in the study of classical Chinese or paleography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9CF2
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	鳲
HTML Hex Encoding	鳲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB3 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9CF2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009CF2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9cf2

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

kBigFive	E4E3
kCCCII	235977
kCNS1986	2-4F4B
kCNS1992	2-4F4B
kCangjie	SHAF
kCantonese	si1
kCihaiT	1534.104
kDaeJaweon	2013.280
kDefinition	turtledove, cuckoo
kEACC	235977
kFanqie	式之
kFourCornerCode	7722.7
kGB3	2749
kGSR	0561e
kHanYu	74617.080
kHanyuPinyin	74617.080:shī
kIRGDaeJaweon	2013.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74617.080
kIRGKangXi	1482.100
kIRG_GSource	G3-3B51
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E4E3
kIRG_JSource	J14-7E22
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8DF1
kIRG_KSource	K2-7223
kIRG_TSource	T2-4F4B
kJapanese	シ
kJIS0213	2,94,02
kJapaneseKun	YOBUKODORI
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis1	7558
kKangXi	1482.100
kMandarin	shī
kMatthews	5758
kMeyerWempe	2683b
kMojiJoho	MJ029425
kMorohashi	46667
kPhonetic	1176
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19069+44.3.11 C+19069+196.11.3
kRSUnicode	196.3
kSBGY	054.17
kSimplifiedVariant	"鸤" U+9E24 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	808.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	shī粵si1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7684
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	310:125