U+9ED5 "黕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9ED5 "黕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex logograph used in traditional Chinese writing, where it has the primary meaning of "black" or "dark" and can also refer to the act of applying black ink or making something dirty. This character belongs to the "black" radical (黑) and is composed of strokes that visually depict a darkened or stained quality. In classical texts, it occasionally appears in poetic or descriptive contexts to emphasize deep, dark colors, but it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, making it an obscure character primarily of interest to historical linguistics, paleography, or specialized literary studies.

General Properties

Code Point U+9ED5
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 黕
HTML Hex Encoding 黕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBB 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9ED5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009ED5
C/C++/Java Escape \u9ed5

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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kCNS1986 2-5C40
kCNS1992 2-5C40
kCangjie WFLBU
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kCihaiT 1562.301
kDaeJaweon 2052.190
kDefinition red
kFanqie 都感
kFourCornerCode 6431.2
kGB3 9235
kGSR 0656n
kHanYu 74745.070
kHanyuPinyin 74745.070:dǎn
kIRGDaeJaweon 2052.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74745.070
kIRGKangXi 1519.060
kIRG_GSource G3-7C43
kIRG_HSource HB2-ECB4
kIRG_JSource J1-6C74
kIRG_KPSource KP1-90E4
kIRG_KSource K2-7434
kIRG_TSource T2-5C40
kJapanese タン トン チン
kJapaneseKun AKA
kJapaneseOn TAN TON CHIN
kJis1 7684
kKangXi 1519.060
kMandarin dǎn
kMojiJoho MJ029898
kMorohashi 48057
kPhonetic 1477
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+23029+203.12.4
kRSUnicode 203.4
kSBGY 332.10
kTang tǒm
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXHC1983 0210.050:dǎn