U+9D59 "鵙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鵙

U+9D59 "鵙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character primarily used in classical literature and historical texts, where it refers to a type of small bird, often identified as a shrike or butcherbird. This ideograph is composed of the bird radical (鳥) combined with an upper component that provides phonetic and semantic cues, though it is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing. In historical usage, "鵙" appears in ancient Chinese poetry and lexicons, sometimes associated with singing birds or serving as a variant of other avian characters. Due to its rarity, it is not included in standard modern character sets for daily communication, but it remains part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block for compatibility with historical and specialized texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9D59
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	鵙
HTML Hex Encoding	鵙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB5 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9D59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009D59
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9d59

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	F1D5
kCCCII	235A7B
kCNS1986	2-6521
kCNS1992	2-6521
kCangjie	BCHAF
kCantonese	gwik1
kCihaiT	1539.604
kDaeJaweon	2021.120
kDefinition	shrike; Lanius species (various)
kEACC	235A7B
kFourCornerCode	6782.7
kGB5	4238
kGSR	0860c
kHanYu	74634.160
kHanyuPinyin	74634.160:jú
kIRGDaeJaweon	2021.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74634.160
kIRGKangXi	1490.250
kIRG_GSource	G5-4A46
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F1D5
kIRG_JSource	J0-7326
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8E79
kIRG_KSource	K2-7256
kIRG_TSource	T2-6521
kJapanese	ケキゲキキャクもず
kJapaneseKun	MOZU
kJapaneseOn	GEKI KEKI
kJis0	8306
kKangXi	1490.250
kMandarin	jú
kMatthews	1582
kMojiJoho	MJ029539
kMorohashi	46947
kPhonetic	738 1083
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7385+154.7.11 C+7385+196.11.7
kRSUnicode	196.7
kSemanticVariant	U+9D03<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"𱉐" U+31250 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	813.06
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT