U+9E5C "鹜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E5C "鹜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of duck, specifically a domestic duck, and is often used in classical and modern Chinese literature to denote this waterfowl. In addition to its literal meaning, the character appears in various compound words and idioms, such as "趋之若鹜" (qū zhī ruò wù), which describes a crowd rushing after something eagerly like a flock of ducks, conveying a sense of blindly following a trend. The character itself combines a phonetic component with a radical related to birds, reflecting its agricultural and cultural significance in East Asian contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E5C
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	鹜
HTML Hex Encoding	鹜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB9 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E5C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E5C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e5c

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	295B59
kCangjie	NKPYM
kCantonese	mou6
kDefinition	duck
kEACC	295B59
kFourCornerCode	1812
kGB0	8045
kHanYu	74649.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74649.010
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-704D
kTGH	2013:5840
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7726
kMandarin	wù
kRSUnicode	196'.9
kTGHZ2013	390.170:wù
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"鶩" U+9DA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1225.030:wù