U+9E69 "鹩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9E69 "鹩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character pronounced "liáo" in Mandarin, which refers to a small bird species known as the "wren" or specifically the "Eastern wren" in traditional ornithological contexts. Part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, this character combines the radical for "bird" (鸟) with the phonetic component "尞" to form a semantically and phonetically composite logograph. In classical Chinese literature and poetic usage, "鹩" often appears in references to tiny, lively songbirds, evoking imagery of nimble movement and melodious calls. Its usage is less common in modern everyday writing but remains present in specialized zoological texts, historical lexicons, and literary works that preserve classical or regional bird names.

General Properties

Code Point U+9E69
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 鹩
HTML Hex Encoding 鹩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xB9 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9E69
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009E69
C/C++/Java Escape \u9e69

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 295C65
kCangjie KFPYM
kCantonese liu4
kDefinition wren
kEACC 295C65
kFourCornerCode 4792
kGB0 8051
kHanYu 74660.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74660.120
kIRGKangXi 1505.141
kIRG_GSource G0-7053
kTGH 2013:6219
kKangXi 1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph 7754
kMandarin liáo
kRSUnicode 196'.12
kTGHZ2013 222.210:liáo
kTotalStrokes 17
kTraditionalVariant "鷯" U+9DEF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0711.020:liáo