U+9EC3 "黃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
黃
U+9EC3 "黃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents the color yellow, and it is used across multiple East Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, where it often appears in names, compounds, and cultural terms. Its structure combines the radical for "fire" or "heat" with phonetic components, and it holds symbolic significance in Chinese culture, such as being associated with the earth, the emperor, and the central direction in traditional cosmology. In modern contexts, it is commonly found in words like "yellow" (huáng), "golden" (jīnhuáng), and the ancient "Yellow Emperor" (Huángdì).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9EC3 |
| 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 | 黃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 黃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBB 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9EC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009EC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9ec3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6C0 |
| kCCCII | 216262 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6327 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6327 |
| kCangjie | TMWC |
| kCantonese | wong4 |
| kCihaiT | 1553.402 |
| kCowles | 5070 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2046.110 |
| kDefinition | yellow; surname; Kangxi radical 201 |
| kEACC | 216262 |
| kFanqie | 胡光 |
| kFenn | 822A |
| kFennIndex | 205.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4480.6 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0707a |
| kHangul | 황:0E |
| kHanYu | 74596.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | huáng(347) |
| kHKGlyph | 4718 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2046.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74596.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1516.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5770 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6C0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J3-7E71 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F6F3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7C5C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6327 |
| kJapanese | オウ コウ き こ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010:U+9EC4 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,94,81 |
| kJapaneseKun | KI |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU OU |
| kKangXi | 1516.030 |
| kKarlgren | 106 |
| kKorean | HWANG |
| kLau | 3259 |
| kMandarin | huáng |
| kMatthews | 2297 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3784 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029868 |
| kMorohashi | 47926 |
| kPhonetic | 1458 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+13323+201.12.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 201.0 |
| kSBGY | 181.13 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "黄" U+9EC4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 824.09 49.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | huáng粵wong4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7806 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 242:376 |