U+9F05 "鼅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9F05 "鼅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely archaic Chinese character, historically used as a variant form of the character "蜘蛛" (zhīzhū), which means "spider." It belongs to the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block, which encodes characters from the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) writing systems, and its usage appears in classical Chinese texts rather than in modern standard writing. Represented in traditional script, "鼅" combines the "黽" (frog or reptile) radical with a simplified phonetic component, referencing spider-like creatures in older lexicons. Due to its obscurity, it is not commonly found in contemporary dictionaries or everyday language, making it a subject of interest primarily for historical linguistic and paleographic study.

General Properties

Code Point U+9F05
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 鼅
HTML Hex Encoding 鼅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBC 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9F05
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009F05
C/C++/Java Escape \u9f05

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 262263
kCNS1986 E-5F3C
kCNS1992 3-5F3C
kCangjie ORRXU
kCantonese zi1
kCihaiT 1565.303
kDaeJaweon 2059.260
kDefinition spider
kEACC 2D5675
kFanqie 陟移
kGB5 8444
kHanYu 74770.080
kHanyuPinyin 74770.080:zhī
kIRGDaeJaweon 2059.260
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74770.080
kIRGKangXi 1524.140
kIRG_GSource G5-744C
kIRG_JSource JMJ-029962
kIRG_KPSource KP1-9170
kIRG_TSource T3-5F3C
kJapanese
kJapaneseKun KUMO
kJapaneseOn CHI
kKangXi 1524.140
kMandarin zhī
kMojiJoho MJ029962 MJ029962:E0100 MJ029963:E0101
kMorohashi 48286 48286:E0100 48285:E0101
kPhonetic 133
kRSUnicode 205.8
kSBGY 049.07
kSimplifiedVariant "𱌄" U+31304 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 21