U+9D8F "鶏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9D8F "鶏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) and Japanese kanji primarily meaning "chicken" or "fowl." It is a variant form of the more common simplified Chinese character "鸡" (jī) and the traditional character "雞" (jī), often appearing in Japanese writing and some classical Chinese texts. The character combines a phonetic component on the left and a "bird" radical (鳥) on the right, reflecting its avian meaning, and is used in words such as "鶏肉" (chicken meat) and "野鶏" (pheasant).

General Properties

Code Point	U+9D8F
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	鶏
HTML Hex Encoding	鶏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB6 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9D8F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009D8F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9d8f

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	BOHAF
kCantonese	gai1
kDaeJaweon	2024.080
kDefinition	chicken
kEACC	4B5F4C
kFourCornerCode	2752.7
kHanYu	74641.141
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	2024.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74641.141
kIRGKangXi	1494.101
kIRG_GSource	GE-5725
kIRG_JSource	J0-375C
kJapanese	ケイ にわとり とり
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	NIWATORI TORI
kJapaneseOn	KEI
kJis0	2360
kKangXi	1494.101
kMandarin	jī
kMojiJoho	MJ029601
kMorohashi	47074'
kNelson	5359
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1842+196.11.8
kRSUnicode	196.8
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	J