U+9E3F "鸿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鸿
U+9E3F "鸿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "wild swan" or "great" and is often used in classical and modern Chinese to convey a sense of vastness or grandeur, such as in the word "鸿鹄" (honghu), which refers to a swan or a lofty ambition. It is composed of the radical "鸟" (bird) on the left and the phonetic component "江" (river) on the right, reflecting its etymological connection to waterfowl. In cultural contexts, this character also appears in terms like "鸿沟" (honggou), meaning a wide chasm or great divide, and is a common element in personal names and poetic expressions, symbolizing nobility, distance, or transcendence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9E3F |
| 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 | 鸿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鸿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB8 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9E3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009E3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9e3f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27623C |
| kCangjie | EMPM |
| kCantonese | hung4 |
| kDefinition | species of wild swan; vast |
| kEACC | 27623C |
| kFourCornerCode | 3712 |
| kGB0 | 2672 |
| kHanYu | 74633.010 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74633.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3A68 |
| kTGH | 2013:2412 |
| kKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7703 |
| kMandarin | hóng |
| kRSUnicode | 196'.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 372.17 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 138.070:hóng |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鴻" U+9D3B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0461.100:hóng |