U+9E4A "鹊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鹊
U+9E4A "鹊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally denotes the magpie, a bird often associated with joy, good fortune, and the arrival of happy news in East Asian culture. In classical and modern contexts, the character appears in idioms such as "鹊桥" (the Magpie Bridge), which references the folk tale of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, where magpies form a bridge across the Milky Way to allow the lovers to meet once a year. The character is composed of the radical for "bird" (鸟) and a phonetic component that suggests its pronunciation, and it is commonly used in literature, poetry, and names to convey auspiciousness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9E4A |
| 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 | 鹊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鹊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xB9 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9E4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009E4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9e4a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276243 |
| kCangjie | TAPYM |
| kCantonese | coek3 |
| kDefinition | magpie; Pica species (various) |
| kEACC | 276243 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4762 |
| kGB0 | 4021 |
| kHanYu | 74639.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | que(28) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74639.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4835 |
| kTGH | 2013:2851 |
| kKangXi | 1505.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7717 |
| kMandarin | què |
| kPhonetic | 1194* |
| kRSUnicode | 196'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 311.060:què |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鵲" U+9D72 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0951.070:què |