U+9E2E "鸮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E2E "鸮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents a type of owl, specifically referring to birds in the family Strigidae, which are known for their nocturnal habits and distinctive hooting calls. In classical Chinese literature and modern usage, this character is often associated with wisdom or omens, and it appears in compound words and idioms related to these birds. The character is composed of the radical for bird (鳥) and a phonetic component, reflecting its classification as a pictophonetic character in the Chinese writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E2E
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	鸮
HTML Hex Encoding	鸮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB8 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E2E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E2E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e2e

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	295A3F
kCangjie	XRSPY
kCantonese	hiu1
kDefinition	owl
kFourCornerCode	6722.7
kGB8	9361
kHanYu	74623.120
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74623.120
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G8-7D5D
kTGH	2013:4503
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7697
kMandarin	xiāo
kRSUnicode	196'.5
kTGHZ2013	402.140:xiāo
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"鴞" U+9D1E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1264.100:xiāo