U+9E40 "鹀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9E40 "鹀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a type of bird, specifically a bunting or a small passerine bird often found in East Asia. In modern Chinese usage, this character appears in the name of certain bird species, such as the "黄鹀" (yellow bunting), and is composed of the radical "鸟" (bird) on the right side, indicating its avian meaning, with a phonetic component on the left providing pronunciation clues. This ideograph is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set, enabling consistent digital representation across languages that share historical roots in Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point U+9E40
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 鹀
HTML Hex Encoding 鹀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB9 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9E40
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009E40
C/C++/Java Escape \u9e40

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

kCangjie MOPYM
kCantonese mou4
kFourCornerCode 1712.7
kHanYu 74633.171
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74633.171
kIRGKangXi 1505.141
kIRG_GSource GHZR-84938.17
kTGH 2013:7327
kJapaneseKun FUNASHIUZU
kJapaneseOn BU MU
kKangXi 1505.141
kMandarin
kPhonetic 912*
kRSUnicode 196'.7
kTGHZ2013 388.210:wú
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "鵐" U+9D50 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1218.020:wú