U+9E25 "鸥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鸥
U+9E25 "鸥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a seagull, specifically the "鸥" (ōu) in standard Mandarin, and it is classified under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts. This character is composed of the radical 鸟 (bird) on the left, indicating its avian meaning, and the phonetic component 区 (qū) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. It appears in classical and modern contexts, often in poetry or descriptions of coastal environments, where it symbolizes freedom and the ocean, though it can also form compounds like 海鸥 (sea gull) to specify the bird species.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9E25 |
| 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 | 鸥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鸥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB8 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9E25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009E25 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9e25 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27624A |
| kCangjie | SKPYM |
| kCantonese | au1 |
| kDefinition | seagull, tern; Larus species (various) |
| kEACC | 27624A |
| kFourCornerCode | 7772 |
| kGB0 | 3724 |
| kHanYu | 74618.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ōu(13) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74618.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4538 |
| kTGH | 2013:1459 |
| kKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7743 |
| kMandarin | ōu |
| kRSUnicode | 196'.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 810.02 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 272.100:ōu |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鷗" U+9DD7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0845.100:ōu |