U+9E3D "鸽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E3D "鸽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of a pigeon or dove. It is composed of the radical for "bird" (鸟) combined with the phonetic component "合," which gives a clue to its pronunciation in Mandarin as "gē." This character is used in various contexts, including in the word for "pigeon" (鸽子) and in symbolic references to peace, as doves are often associated with that meaning. It is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, enabling its digital representation across different languages and systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E3D
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	鸽
HTML Hex Encoding	鸽
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB8 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E3D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E3D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e3d

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	27623D
kCangjie	ORPYM
kCantonese	gap3
kDefinition	pigeon, dove; Columba species (various)
kEACC	27623D
kFourCornerCode	8762
kGB0	2475
kHanYu	74631.010
kHanyuPinlu	gē(11)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74631.010
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-386B
kTGH	2013:2349
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7704
kMandarin	gē
kRSUnicode	196'.6
kTGHZ2013	110.040:gē
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"鴿" U+9D3F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0370.050:gē