U+9E73 "鹳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E73 "鹳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the stork or crane, specifically associated with birds of the genus Ciconia or related long-legged wading birds. It is composed of the radical for "bird" (鸟 or 鳥) combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in both traditional and simplified Chinese scripts with the same form. This character is used in classical literature, idioms, and modern contexts to refer to the stork, often symbolizing longevity, good fortune, or fidelity in East Asian cultures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E73
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	鹳
HTML Hex Encoding	鹳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xB9 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E73
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E73
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e73

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	295D3A
kCangjie	TGPYM
kCantonese	gun3
kDefinition	crane, Grus japonensis; stork; Ciconia species (various)
kEACC	295D3A
kFourCornerCode	4722
kGB0	8057
kHanYu	74671.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74671.010
kIRGKangXi	1505.141
kIRG_GSource	G0-7059
kTGH	2013:6467
kKangXi	1505.141
kMainlandTelegraph	7764
kMandarin	guàn
kPhonetic	761*
kRSUnicode	196'.17
kSMSZD2003Index	819.05
kTGHZ2013	122.140:guàn
kTotalStrokes	22
kTraditionalVariant	"鸛" U+9E1B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0411.030:guàn