U+9E22 "鸢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E22 "鸢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents a kite, specifically the black‑eared kite bird, but also commonly refers to a man‑made kite used for flying in the wind. In traditional Chinese culture, it appears in classical poetry and idioms to evoke images of soaring flight or predatory grace. The character is composed of the “bird” radical (鸟) on top and a phonetic component, and it is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E22
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	鸢
HTML Hex Encoding	鸢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB8 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E22
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E22
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e22

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	276231
kCangjie	IPPYM
kCantonese	jyun1
kDefinition	kite; Milvus species (various)
kEACC	276231
kFourCornerCode	4312
kGB0	8016
kHanYu	74615.140
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74615.140
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-7030
kTGH	2013:3895
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7687
kMandarin	yuān
kPhonetic	1558*
kRSUnicode	196'.3
kSMSZD2003Index	206.09
kTGHZ2013	450.110:yuān
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"鳶" U+9CF6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1419.010:yuān