U+9E88 "麈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

麈

U+9E88 "麈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that refers to a type of deer, specifically the large male of the sika deer or a similar species, and historically denoted a deer's tail used as a fly-whisk or a ceremonial brush, symbolizing scholarly elegance in ancient Chinese culture. It is composed of the radical for "deer" (鹿) and the phonetic component "主" (zhu), and its usage appears in classical texts and poetry, often evoking imagery of nobility or the pursuit of knowledge. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems, and it is relatively rare in modern usage, mostly encountered in literary or historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9E88
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	麈
HTML Hex Encoding	麈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBA 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9E88
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009E88
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9e88

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

kBigFive	ECAF
kCCCII	235D4B
kCNS1986	2-5C3B
kCNS1992	2-5C3B
kCangjie	IPYG
kCantonese	zyu2
kCihaiT	1549.504
kCowles	330
kDaeJaweon	2038.010
kDefinition	legendary species of deer
kEACC	235D4B
kFanqie	之庾
kFenn	81K
kFennIndex	95.03
kFourCornerCode	0021.4
kGB0	8770
kGB1	8770
kHanYu	74729.090
kHanyuPinyin	74729.090:zhǔ
kIRGDaeJaweon	2038.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74729.090
kIRGKangXi	1509.260
kIRG_GSource	G0-7766
kIRG_HSource	HB2-ECAF
kIRG_JSource	J0-7347
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-9010
kIRG_KSource	K2-7372
kIRG_TSource	T2-5C3B
kJapanese	シュス
kTGH	2013:6163
kJapaneseKun	OUJIKA
kJapaneseOn	SHU SU
kJis0	8339
kKangXi	1509.260
kKorean	CWU
kMainlandTelegraph	7779
kMandarin	zhǔ
kMatthews	1345
kMeyerWempe	351d
kMojiJoho	MJ029789
kMorohashi	47616
kPhonetic	263
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+7418+198.11.5
kRSUnicode	198.5
kSBGY	263.20
kSMSZD2003Index	821.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhǔ粵zyu2
kTaiwanTelegraph	7779
kTGHZ2013	485.020:zhǔ
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	276:310
kXHC1983	1512.020:zhǔ