U+9E3C "鸼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鸼
U+9E3C "鸼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that falls within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, specifically representing a variant or lesser known term for a type of bird, often identified as a kind of small pigeon or dove. Its structure combines the radical for bird (鸟) on the left with a phonetic component on the right, following the typical pattern of Chinese character formation. This ideograph appears infrequently in modern texts and is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese lexicography or classical literature, where it may denote a specific avian species referenced in older dictionaries or poetry.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9E3C |
| 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 | 鸼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鸼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB8 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9E3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009E3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9e3c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | HYPYM |
| kCantonese | zau1 |
| kDefinition | ancient name for a bird with black featers and a short tail |
| kFourCornerCode | 2742.7 |
| kHanYu | 74630.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74630.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G7-2129 |
| kTGH | 2013:7205 |
| kKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kMandarin | zhōu |
| kRSUnicode | 196'.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 569.03 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 482.040:zhōu |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鵃" U+9D43 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1504.090:zhōu |