U+9E2D "鸭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E2D "鸭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in modern Chinese and derived from traditional Chinese script, where it represents the concept of a duck. Composed of the radical for "bird" on the right side and a phonetic component on the left, this character appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, such as in the word for "duck" itself, and is also associated with culinary terms and idiomatic expressions. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for languages like Mandarin and Japanese, where it is similarly employed.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E2D
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	鸭
HTML Hex Encoding	鸭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB8 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E2D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E2D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e2d

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	276238
kCangjie	WLPYM
kCantonese	aap3
kDefinition	duck; Anas species (various)
kEACC	276238
kFourCornerCode	6752
kGB0	4928
kHanYu	74623.080
kHanyuPinlu	yā(41)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74623.080
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-513C
kTGH	2013:1892
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7700
kMandarin	yā
kPhonetic	551*
kRSUnicode	196'.5
kTGHZ2013	419.090:yā
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"鴨" U+9D28 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1319.010:yā