U+9E66 "鹦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E66 "鹦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph that represents a parrot or a similarly colorful bird, specifically referring to the common parrot species. This character is composed of the radical for "bird" (鸟) on the right side and the phonetic component "婴" on the left, which provides a clue to its pronunciation as "yīng" in Mandarin Chinese. It is widely used in modern Chinese writing, appearing in compound words like "鹦鹉" (yīngwǔ), meaning parrot, and is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set, ensuring its consistent representation across different East Asian languages and digital systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E66
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	鹦
HTML Hex Encoding	鹦
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB9 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E66
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E66
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e66

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	27624E
kCangjie	BVPYM
kCantonese	jing1
kDefinition	parrot
kEACC	27624E
kFourCornerCode	7742
kGB0	8048
kHanYu	74657.120
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74657.120
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-7050
kTGH	2013:3350
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7761
kMandarin	yīng
kRSUnicode	196'.11
kSMSZD2003Index	817.08
kTGHZ2013	439.120:yīng
kTotalStrokes	16
kTraditionalVariant	"鸚" U+9E1A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1385.120:yīng