U+9E63 "鹣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E63 "鹣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that represents the mythical "jian" bird, often depicted as a pair of birds that are inseparable, symbolizing conjugal fidelity and marital harmony in traditional Chinese culture. It is a simplified form of the traditional character "鶼", and as a logogram, it combines the semantic component for "bird" with a phonetic element to convey its pronunciation and meaning. This character is primarily used in classical literature and poetic contexts to evoke themes of love, partnership, and unity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E63
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	鹣
HTML Hex Encoding	鹣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB9 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E63
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E63
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e63

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	295B77
kCangjie	TCPYM
kCantonese	gim1
kDefinition	fabulous mythical bird
kEACC	295B77
kFourCornerCode	8722
kGB0	8047
kHanYu	74653.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74653.080
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-704F
kTGH	2013:7811
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7738
kMandarin	jiān
kPhonetic	615*
kRSUnicode	196'.10
kTGHZ2013	163.180:jiān
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"鶼" U+9DBC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0546.090:jiān