U+9F03 "鼃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鼃

U+9F03 "鼃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely historical Chinese character that primarily represents a type of frog or toad, often specifically associated with a large, edible frog species. This character appears in classical Chinese texts and is sometimes used as a variant or archaic form of more common characters for frog, such as 蛙 (wā). Beyond its literal meaning, the character "鼃" carries specific phonological and semantic nuances in ancient literature, where it can also refer to the sound of frogs croaking or be used in compound words describing amphibians. Its structure combines the "frog" radical (黽, mǐn) with a phonetic component, reflecting its origins in traditional Chinese lexicography, though it is no longer in modern, everyday use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F03
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	鼃
HTML Hex Encoding	鼃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBC 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F03
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F03
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f03

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	235F23
kCNS1986	E-5C2D
kCNS1992	3-5C2D
kCangjie	GGRXU
kCantonese	waa1
kCihaiT	1565.206
kDaeJaweon	2059.200
kDefinition	the edible water-frog
kFanqie	烏媧戶媧
kFennIndex	589.08
kGSR	0879y
kHanYu	74769.120
kHanyuPinyin	74769.120:wā
kIRGDaeJaweon	2059.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74769.120
kIRGKangXi	1524.100
kIRG_GSource	GE-5776
kIRG_JSource	J14-7E61
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-916E
kIRG_KSource	K2-7443
kIRG_TSource	T3-5C2D
kJapanese	ワイカイ
kJIS0213	2,94,65
kJapaneseKun	KAERU
kJapaneseOn	WAI KAI
kJis1	7704
kKangXi	1524.100
kKarlgren	458
kMandarin	wā
kMatthews	6993
kMeyerWempe	3692b
kMojiJoho	MJ029959 MJ029959:E0101 MJ029960:E0102
kMorohashi	48278 48278:E0101
kPhonetic	710
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19116+205.13.6
kRSUnicode	205.6
kSBGY	093.23 094.08
kSemanticVariant	U+86D9<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph	7838
kTotalStrokes	19
kXerox	322:314
kXHC1983	1176.031:wā