U+9ED9 "黙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
黙
U+9ED9 "黙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character used in traditional forms of written Chinese and Japanese, where it is known as "moku" or "boku" in Japanese on'yomi and "chén" in Chinese. It primarily means "silent" or "quiet," often appearing in compounds like 黙秘 (mokuhi) or 黙殺 (mokusatsu) in Japanese, conveying a sense of stillness, taciturnity, or wordless agreement. This character is a variant of the more common simplified Chinese 默 (mò) and the standard Japanese 黙, featuring a distinct composition with the black radical (黑) on top and the dog radical (犬) below, reflecting its historical etymology tied to darkness and silence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9ED9 |
| 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 | 黙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 黙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBB 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9ED9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009ED9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9ed9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | WKF |
| kCantonese | mak6 |
| kDefinition | silent; quiet, still; dark |
| kEACC | 4B6268 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6333.3 |
| kHanYu | 74744.120 |
| kIICore | AJK |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74744.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1519.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5774 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C5B |
| kIRG_KSource | K6-1021 |
| kIRG_MSource | MD-9ED9 |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-5560 |
| kJapanese | モク ボク だまる もだす |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | DAMARU MODASU |
| kJapaneseOn | MOKU |
| kJis0 | 4459 |
| kKangXi | 1519.181 |
| kMandarin | mò |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029903 |
| kMorohashi | 48063' |
| kNelson | 2796 |
| kPhonetic | 431 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3815+86.4.11 C+3815+203.11.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.11 203.4 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9ED8 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |