U+9E59 "鹙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E59 "鹙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally refers to a type of aquatic bird, specifically a kind of cormorant or a similar waterfowl often associated with fishing in East Asian contexts. It is composed of the radical for "bird" (鸟) combined with the phonetic component "秋" (qiū, meaning autumn), which suggests both a visual and semantic link to avian life and seasonal imagery. While the character is not commonly used in modern everyday writing, it may appear in classical literature, historical texts, or specialized zoological references that discuss water birds.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E59
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	鹙
HTML Hex Encoding	鹙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB9 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E59
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e59

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	295B70
kCangjie	HFPYM
kCantonese	cau1
kDefinition	large waterfowl with naked head; Garrulus glandarius
kFourCornerCode	2912.7
kGB8	9369
kHanYu	74646.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74646.130
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G8-7D65
kTGH	2013:7689
kKangXi	1505.141
kKorean	CHWU
kMainlandTelegraph	7723
kMandarin	qiū
kRSUnicode	196'.9
kTGHZ2013	305.200:qiū
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"鶖" U+9D96 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0939.050:qiū