U+9E43 "鹃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9E43 "鹃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the cuckoo bird, specifically the species commonly known in East Asian contexts, and appears in compound words like "杜鹃" (dùjuān), which denotes both the cuckoo bird and the azalea flower. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, where it is encoded for use in traditional and simplified Chinese scripts, as well as in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja. Its etymology combines the radical for "bird" (鸟 or 鳥) on the left with the phonetic component "肙" (yuān) on the right, reflecting a typical pictophonetic structure that hints at pronunciation while conveying the avian meaning. In literature and culture, the cuckoo symbolized by this character is often associated with melancholy or longing, appearing in classical poetry and folklore as a herald of spring or a voice of sorrow.

General Properties

Code Point U+9E43
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 鹃
HTML Hex Encoding 鹃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB9 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9E43
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009E43
C/C++/Java Escape \u9e43

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 27623F
kCangjie RBPYM
kCantonese gyun1
kDefinition cuckoo
kEACC 27623F
kFourCornerCode 6722
kGB0 3073
kHanYu 74635.030
kHanyuPinlu juān(16)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74635.030
kIRGKangXi 1505.141
kIRG_GSource G0-3E69
kTGH 2013:2640
kKangXi 1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph 7710
kMandarin juān
kPhonetic 1621*
kRSUnicode 196'.7
kTGHZ2013 187.020:juān
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "鵑" U+9D51 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0616.090:juān