U+9DB8 "鶸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9DB8 "鶸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and traditional Chinese character used to denote the siskin, a type of small finch bird, often specifically the Eurasian siskin. This ideograph combines the "bird" radical (鳥) with a phonetic component that indicates its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is "ruò" and shares a phonetic resemblance to the character for "weak" or "young." Besides its ornithological meaning, the character also appears in Japanese as a kanji (karakas) for the same bird species, and it is sometimes encountered in historical or literary contexts due to its specific, niche usage. Overall, U+9DB8 represents a specialized element within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, pointing to a particular avian subject rather than a common or broadly functional word.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9DB8
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	鶸
HTML Hex Encoding	鶸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB6 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9DB8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009DB8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9db8

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	C564
kCCCII	235B7B
kCNS1986	1-7B50
kCNS1992	1-7B50
kCangjie	NMNMF
kCantonese	joek6
kCihaiT	1543.405
kDaeJaweon	2026.180
kDefinition	light yellowish-green
kEACC	235B7B
kFourCornerCode	1722.7
kGB5	6042
kHangul	약:1N
kHanYu	74654.060
kHanyuPinyin	74654.060:ruò
kIICore	ATJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	2026.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74654.060
kIRGKangXi	1496.270
kIRG_GSource	G5-5C4A
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C564
kIRG_JSource	J0-7334
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8F34
kIRG_KSource	K1-6677
kIRG_TSource	T1-7B50
kJapanese	ニャク ジャク ひわ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	HIWA
kJapaneseOn	JAKU
kJis0	8320
kKangXi	1496.270
kKorean	YAK
kMandarin	ruò
kMojiJoho	MJ029645 MJ029645:E0101 MJ029646:E0102
kMorohashi	47193 47193:E0101
kNelson	5362
kPhonetic	1524*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7399+196.11.10
kRSUnicode	196.10
kTotalStrokes	21
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT