U+9ED2 "黒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
黒
U+9ED2 "黒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character, also used in Japanese and Korean, that primarily means "black" and is a variant form of the more common character 黑 (hēi in Mandarin, kuro in Japanese). It is composed of a radical element representing fire or related concepts, with a complex structure that signifies darkness or the color black. This character appears in various compounds and phrases across East Asian languages, such as in the Japanese word "黒板" (kokuban) for blackboard, and it has historical significance in written traditions dating back to ancient Chinese oracle bone script. Its encoding as a unified CJK ideograph ensures consistent representation across digital systems for these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9ED2 |
| 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 | 黒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 黒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBB 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9ED2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009ED2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9ed2 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-396B |
| kCNS1992 | 3-396B |
| kCangjie | XWGF |
| kCantonese | hak1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2052.020 |
| kDefinition | black; dark; evil |
| kEACC | 4B6266 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6033.1 |
| kHanYu | 74743.011 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2052.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74743.011 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1518.361 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5773 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3975 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-396B |
| kJapanese | コク くろ くろい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUROI KURO |
| kJapaneseOn | KOKU |
| kJis0 | 2585 |
| kKangXi | 1518.361 |
| kKorean | HUK |
| kMandarin | hēi |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029894 |
| kMorohashi | 48040 |
| kNelson | 5403 |
| kPhonetic | 431* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2055+203.11.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 203.0 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |
| kZVariant | U+9ED1 |