U+9F04 "鼄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9F04 "鼄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and traditional Chinese character used in classical texts, primarily representing the word for "spider" or "web," though it is considered an archaic or variant form of the more common character 蛛 (zhū). This ideograph is composed of radical components that suggest its semantic meaning, with the radical "黾" (frog or toad) appearing alongside other elements that hint at its arachnid association. In modern usage, "鼄" has largely fallen out of everyday written Chinese, surviving mainly in historical literature or specialized linguistic studies of ancient script. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars and enthusiasts can digitally preserve and access this piece of Chinese orthographic heritage without loss of typographic fidelity.

General Properties

Code Point U+9F04
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 鼄
HTML Hex Encoding 鼄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBC 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9F04
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009F04
C/C++/Java Escape \u9f04

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 262261
kCNS1986 E-5C2E
kCNS1992 3-5C2E
kCangjie HDRXU
kCantonese zyu1
kCihaiT 1565.302
kDaeJaweon 2059.210
kDefinition the spider
kEACC 2D5664
kFanqie 陟輸
kGB5 8443
kGSR 0128h
kHangul 주:1N
kHanYu 74770.010
kHanyuPinyin 74770.010:zhū
kIRGDaeJaweon 2059.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74770.010
kIRGKangXi 1524.110
kIRG_GSource G5-744B
kIRG_JSource JMJ-029961
kIRG_KPSource KP1-916C
kIRG_KSource K1-6D5F
kIRG_TSource T3-5C2E
kJapanese チュ
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 1524.110
kKorean CWU
kMandarin zhū
kMatthews 1351
kMojiJoho MJ029961
kMorohashi 48280
kPhonetic 260
kRSUnicode 205.6
kSBGY 075.49
kSemanticVariant U+86DB<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant "𬹣" U+2CE63 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 19