U+9E3E "鸾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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