U+9E23 "鸣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鸣
U+9E23 "鸣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional and simplified Chinese character that represents the concept of sound or a call, typically made by birds or animals, and is composed of the radical for "mouth" on the left and the character for "bird" on the right, symbolizing the act of chirping or singing. It is commonly used in words like "míngjiào" meaning to chirp or cry out, and appears in classical Chinese poetry and modern contexts to evoke auditory imagery or express the idea of making a sound or statement. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard, coded for consistent digital representation across languages that historically share this writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9E23 |
| 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 | 鸣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鸣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB8 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9E23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009E23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9e23 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276232 |
| kCangjie | RPYM |
| kCantonese | ming4 |
| kDefinition | cry of bird or animal; make sound |
| kEACC | 276232 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6702 |
| kGB0 | 3589 |
| kHanYu | 74616.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | míng(66) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74616.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4379 |
| kTGH | 2013:1100 |
| kKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7686 |
| kMandarin | míng |
| kRSUnicode | 196'.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 99.16 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 254.130:míng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鳴" U+9CF4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0795.020:míng |