U+9DFC "鷼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9DFC "鷼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character found in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a traditional form that is not commonly used in modern standard texts. This ideograph historically pertains to a specific variant of a bird, often associated with the mythical or actual avian creature known as the "xian" or related to elegant, fabled birds in classical Chinese literature. Its structure combines the radical for "bird" (鳥) with phonetic components, reflecting the logographic nature of Chinese script where meaning and sound intertwine. Due to its obscurity, "鷼" is rarely employed in contemporary writing and primarily appears in historical dictionaries or specialized linguistic studies of ancient characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+9DFC
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 鷼
HTML Hex Encoding 鷼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB7 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9DFC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009DFC
C/C++/Java Escape \u9dfc

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

kCCCII 235C5C
kCNS1986 E-606C
kCNS1992 3-606C
kCangjie AAHAF
kCantonese haan4
kEACC 235C5C
kHanYu 74662.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74662.160
kIRGKangXi 1502.121
kIRG_GSource GE-574C
kIRG_HSource H-9AA6
kIRG_JSource JMJ-029730
kIRG_KSource K2-7353
kIRG_TSource T3-606C
kJapanese カン ゲン とび しろきじ
kKangXi 1502.121
kMandarin xián
kMojiJoho MJ029730
kPhonetic 547
kRSUnicode 196.12
kTotalStrokes 23
kUnihanCore2020 H