U+9D8E "鶎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9D8E "鶎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically obscure Chinese character that falls within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block. Its precise meaning and usage are not well documented in standard modern dictionaries, but it is understood to be a variant or archaic form related to specific bird names, possibly denoting a type of mythological or extinct avian creature. The character is composed of the radical for "bird" (鳥) on the right side, while the left component, though uncommon, likely provides phonetic or semantic clues lost to contemporary scholarship. Due to its extreme rarity, "鶎" is rarely encountered in modern texts, and its encoding in Unicode primarily serves to preserve historical or specialized linguistic records rather than facilitate everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+9D8E
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 鶎
HTML Hex Encoding 鶎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB6 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9D8E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009D8E
C/C++/Java Escape \u9d8e

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

kCangjie JFHAF
kCantonese zung1
kDaeJaweon 2024.070
kHanYu 74643.101
kIRGDaeJaweon 2024.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74643.101
kIRGKangXi 1494.101
kIRG_GSource GE-5724
kIRG_JSource J1-6C28
kJapanese きくいただき
kJapaneseKun KIKUITADAKI
kJis1 7608
kKangXi 1494.101
kMandarin zūn
kMojiJoho MJ029600
kMorohashi 47074
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+22998+196.11.8
kRSUnicode 196.8
kTotalStrokes 19