U+9E3A "鸺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E3A "鸺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character representing a type of small owl, specifically a member of the Strigidae family, and is pronounced "xiū" in Mandarin. Its radical is "鸟" (bird), and it appears in classical texts to denote the scops owl or similar nocturnal birds of prey. In modern usage, it is less common but persists in specialized contexts such as zoology, classical literature, and personal names, particularly within Chinese and Japanese typographic systems that share CJK encoded characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E3A
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	鸺
HTML Hex Encoding	鸺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB8 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E3A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E3A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e3a

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	295A68
kCangjie	ODPM
kCantonese	jau1
kDefinition	horned owl, scops chinensis
kEACC	295A68
kFourCornerCode	2722
kGB0	8028
kHanYu	74630.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74630.030
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-703C
kTGH	2013:7194
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7707
kMandarin	xiū
kRSUnicode	196'.6
kTGHZ2013	411.040:xiū
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"鵂" U+9D42 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1296.070:xiū