U+9D09 "鴉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9D09 "鴉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents the concept of a crow or raven, belonging to the bird radical in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph block. It is composed of the radical for bird (鳥) and the phonetic component 牙 (yá), which hints at its pronunciation in Mandarin as "yā". This character appears in classical and modern East Asian literature, often carrying symbolic meanings of darkness, intelligence, or omens depending on the cultural context, and it is also used in Japanese kanji with similar readings and meanings.

General Properties

Code Point U+9D09
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 鴉
HTML Hex Encoding 鴉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB4 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9D09
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009D09
C/C++/Java Escape \u9d09

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 BE7E
kCCCII 216235
kCNS1986 1-7029
kCNS1992 1-7029
kCangjie MHHAF
kCantonese aa1
kCihaiT 1536.403
kCowles 4
kDaeJaweon 2016.120
kDefinition crow, raven; Corvus species (various)
kEACC 216235
kFanqie 於加
kFenn 165F
kFennIndex 611.07
kFourCornerCode 1722.7
kGB1 4927
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0037h
kHangul 아:0N
kHanYu 74618.140
kHanyuPinlu yā(58)
kHanyuPinyin 74618.140:yā,yǎ
kHKGlyph 4674
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 2016.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74618.140
kIRGKangXi 1484.120
kIRG_GSource G1-513B
kIRG_HSource HB1-BE7E
kIRG_JSource J0-726D
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F7AF
kIRG_KSource K0-643C
kIRG_TSource T1-7029
kIRG_VSource V2-915F
kJapanese ア ガ ゲ からす
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun KARASU
kJapaneseOn A
kJis0 8277
kKangXi 1484.120
kKarlgren 208
kKorean A
kLau 3
kMandarin
kMatthews 7223
kMeyerWempe 4
kMojiJoho MJ029452 MJ029452:E0102 MJ029451:E0103 MJ029453:E0104
kMorohashi 46738:E0103
kNelson 2851
kPhonetic 951
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7362+92.5.11 C+7362+196.11.5 V+14272+92.4.11 V+14272+196.11.4
kRSUnicode 196.4
kSBGY 167.24
kSemanticVariant U+9D76<kSMSZD2003Index:T
kSimplifiedVariant "鸦" U+9E26 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 809.07 410.18
kSMSZD2003Readings yā粵aa1
kTaiwanTelegraph 7693
kTang *qa
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 247:337