U+9E3E "鸾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鸾
U+9E3E "鸾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally refers to a mythical bird resembling a phoenix, often associated with good fortune, elegance, and marital harmony in East Asian cultures. In classical literature and art, the luan bird is frequently depicted as a celestial creature, symbolizing grace and auspicious events, and it appears in idioms and compound words, such as "鸾凤和鸣" (luan and phoenix singing in harmony) to express a loving couple. The character is constructed with the radical 鸟 (bird) and the phonetic component 亦, and it is used in modern contexts primarily in names, poetry, and cultural references, maintaining its positive and poetic connotations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9E3E |
| 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 | 鸾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鸾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB8 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9E3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009E3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9e3e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27624F |
| kCangjie | YCPYM |
| kCantonese | lyun4 |
| kDefinition | fabulous bird |
| kEACC | 27624F |
| kFourCornerCode | 0012 |
| kGB0 | 8029 |
| kHanYu | 74631.120 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74631.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-703D |
| kTGH | 2013:4934 |
| kKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7762 |
| kMandarin | luán |
| kPhonetic | 833* |
| kRSUnicode | 196'.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 812.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 236.100:luán |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鸞" U+9E1E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0744.080:luán |