U+9E20 "鸠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E20 "鸠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning a type of dove or pigeon, specifically referring to the turtledove or cuckoo in classical texts. It is composed of the radical for "bird" (鸟) combined with the phonetic component "九" (nine), and its traditional Chinese form is 鳩. This character appears in ancient poetry and idioms, such as the phrase "鸠占鹊巢" (literally "the turtledove occupies the magpie's nest"), which metaphorically describes someone taking over another's property or position. In modern usage, it is less common but still recognized in literary and formal contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E20
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	鸠
HTML Hex Encoding	鸠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB8 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E20
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E20
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e20

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	276230
kCangjie	KNPYM
kCantonese	gau1
kDefinition	pigeon; collect, assemble
kEACC	276230
kFourCornerCode	4702
kGB0	8015
kHanYu	74614.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74614.010
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-702F
kTGH	2013:3748
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7682
kMandarin	jiū
kRSUnicode	196'.2
kTGHZ2013	181.190:jiū
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"鳩" U+9CE9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0604.180:jiū