U+9E33 "鸳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E33 "鸳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used to refer to the male mandarin duck, known in Mandarin as "yuān." It is most commonly encountered in the compound word 鸳鸯 (yuānyāng), which denotes the mandarin duck species as a whole and, by cultural extension, symbolizes devoted lovers or marital fidelity in East Asian literature and art. The character belongs to the bird radical (鸟, simplified) and has various historical and regional variations in form, with its usage rooted in classical Chinese texts and modern simplified Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E33
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	鸳
HTML Hex Encoding	鸳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB8 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E33
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E33
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e33

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	27623A
kCangjie	NUPYM
kCantonese	jyun1
kDefinition	male mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
kEACC	27623A
kFourCornerCode	2712
kGB0	5207
kHanYu	74626.010
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74626.010
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-5427
kTGH	2013:2010
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7696
kMandarin	yuān
kPhonetic	1622*
kRSUnicode	196'.5
kTGHZ2013	450.130:yuān
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"鴛" U+9D1B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1419.080:yuān