U+9F02 "鼂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鼂

U+9F02 "鼂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of sea turtle or tortoise, often associated with the idea of a turtle's shell being used for divination or inscription in ancient texts. In classical Chinese literature, this character can also denote a state of darkness or obscurity, and it appears in historical names and terms such as the legendary figure "鼂错" from the Han dynasty. Its structure combines the radical for turtle with a phonetic component, reflecting its pictographic roots in early writing systems. As a rare and largely archaic character, it is not commonly used in modern Chinese but retains significance in the study of classical Chinese philology and historical linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F02
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	鼂
HTML Hex Encoding	鼂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBC 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F02
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F02
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f02

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

kCCCII	235E7D
kCNS1986	E-5A29
kCNS1992	3-5A29
kCangjie	AMRXU
kCantonese	ciu4
kCihaiT	1565.201
kDaeJaweon	2059.150
kDefinition	a kind of sea turtle; surname
kEACC	235E7D
kFanqie	直遙
kGB5	8440
kGSR	1147a
kHangul	조:1N
kHanYu	74769.020
kHanyuPinyin	74769.020:cháo,zhāo
kIRGDaeJaweon	2059.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74769.020
kIRGKangXi	1524.040
kIRG_GSource	G5-7448
kIRG_HSource	H-91B9
kIRG_JSource	J14-7E5F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-9168
kIRG_KSource	K1-6D39
kIRG_TSource	T3-5A29
kJapanese	チョウジョウあさあした
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	2,94,63
kJapaneseKun	UMIGAME
kJapaneseOn	CHOU JOU
kJis1	7703
kKangXi	1524.040
kKorean	CO
kMandarin	cháo
kMatthews	252
kMojiJoho	MJ029957 MJ029957:E0101 MJ029958:E0102
kMorohashi	48274 48274:E0101
kPhonetic	1296
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19114+205.13.5
kRSUnicode	205.5
kSBGY	147.15
kSimplifiedVariant	"鼌" U+9F0C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	296.14 827.13
kTaiwanTelegraph	7839
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	310:164
kXHC1983	0128.031:cháo