U+9D23 "鴣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9D23 "鴣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents a type of bird, specifically the partridge or a similar game bird, often found in East Asian contexts. This ideograph is composed of two main components: the radical "鳥" on the left, meaning bird, and the phonetic element "古" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation, read as "gu" in Mandarin. In classical and modern usage, "鴣" commonly appears in compound terms such as "鷓鴣," which refers to the Chinese francolin or partridge, a bird associated with hunting and depicted in poetry and art for its distinctive call. The character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoding traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, and is primarily used in formal or literary contexts rather than everyday conversation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9D23
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	鴣
HTML Hex Encoding	鴣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB4 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9D23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009D23
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9d23

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	C06C
kCCCII	216237
kCNS1986	1-7337
kCNS1992	1-7337
kCangjie	JRHAF
kCantonese	gu1
kCihaiT	1537.403
kCowles	1792
kDaeJaweon	2018.070
kDefinition	Arborophila species (various)
kEACC	216237
kFanqie	古胡
kFenn	702H
kFennIndex	258.09
kFourCornerCode	4762.7
kGB1	8019
kHangul	고:1N
kHanYu	74622.070
kHanyuPinyin	74622.070:gū
kHKGlyph	4676
kIICore	ATHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	2018.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74622.070
kIRGKangXi	1486.170
kIRG_GSource	G1-7033
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C06C
kIRG_JSource	J0-7275
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8E1F
kIRG_KSource	K1-5927
kIRG_TSource	T1-7337
kJapanese	コ ク
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	SHAKO
kJapaneseOn	KO KU
kJis0	8285
kKangXi	1486.170
kKorean	KO
kMandarin	gū
kMatthews	3466
kMeyerWempe	1257a
kMojiJoho	MJ029479
kMorohashi	46814
kPhonetic	753
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7370+196.11.5
kRSUnicode	196.5
kSBGY	082.14
kSimplifiedVariant	"鸪" U+9E2A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	811.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	gū粵gu1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7698
kTang	go
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT
kXerox	273:050