U+9E42 "鹂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E42 "鹂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents the oriole, a type of brightly colored songbird often associated with spring and happiness in East Asian culture. This ideograph is composed of the radical for "bird" combined with phonetic elements, and it appears in classical poetry and modern usage primarily as part of the compound word "黄鹂" (huánglí), meaning "yellow oriole." As a unified CJK ideograph, it is encoded for use across multiple languages that share Chinese characters, including Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E42
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	鹂
HTML Hex Encoding	鹂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB9 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E42
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E42
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e42

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	295D3B
kCangjie	MBPYM
kCantonese	lei4
kDefinition	Chinese oriole; Oriolus oriolus
kEACC	295D3B
kFourCornerCode	1722
kGB0	8031
kHanYu	74634.070
kHanyuPinlu	lí(14)
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74634.070
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-703F
kTGH	2013:5111
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7765
kMandarin	lí
kRSUnicode	196'.7
kSMSZD2003Index	813.07
kTGHZ2013	214.150:lí
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"鸝" U+9E1D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0691.120:lí