U+9E9D "麝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9E9D "麝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the musk deer, an animal historically hunted for its musk gland, which produces a highly valued aromatic substance used in traditional medicine and perfumery. In modern usage, this ideograph frequently appears in compound words such as "麝香" meaning musk and extends figuratively to denote something evocative or fragrant. Its radical combines the deer radical 鹿 with the phonetic component 射, reflecting both taxonomic association and pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+9E9D
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 麝
HTML Hex Encoding 麝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBA 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9E9D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009E9D
C/C++/Java Escape \u9e9d

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

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kCCCII 216259
kCNS1986 1-7B51
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kCangjie IPHHI
kCantonese se6
kCihaiT 1550.407
kCowles 3878
kDaeJaweon 2039.200
kDefinition musk deer
kEACC 216259
kFanqie 神夜 食亦
kFenn 634I
kFennIndex 442.06
kFourCornerCode 0024.1
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kGB1 8774
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kHanYu 74735.040
kHanyuPinyin 74735.040:shè
kHKGlyph 4709
kIICore AGTJHKMP
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kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74735.040
kIRGKangXi 1511.130
kIRG_GSource G0-776A
kIRG_HSource HB1-C565
kIRG_JSource J0-734D
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E1A1
kIRG_KSource K0-5E7A
kIRG_TSource T1-7B51
kIRG_VSource V1-6D27
kJapanese ジャ シャ セキ ジャク
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:6456
kJapaneseOn SHA JA SEKI
kJis0 8345
kKangXi 1511.130
kKorean SA
kLau 2714
kMainlandTelegraph 7790
kMandarin shè
kMatthews 5704
kMeyerWempe 2665
kMojiJoho MJ029813
kMorohashi 47682
kNelson 5382
kPhonetic 1155
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7424+198.11.10
kRSUnicode 198.10
kSBGY 423.21 519.53
kSMSZD2003Index 821.14
kSMSZD2003Readings shè粵se6
kTaiwanTelegraph 7790
kTang jhià
kTGHZ2013 329.150:shè
kTotalStrokes 21
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese xạ
kXerox 270:254
kXHC1983 1015.010:shè