U+9F0B "鼋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鼋
U+9F0B "鼋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an East Asian ideograph that represents a mythical giant turtle or soft-shelled turtle, often associated with longevity and strength in Chinese mythology and literature. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, and its traditional meaning reflects the cultural significance of such creatures as symbols of endurance and the natural world. In modern usage, it appears in historical texts, classical poetry, and occasionally in contemporary contexts for decorative or scholarly purposes. The character is composed of radical components that relate to turtle and water, reinforcing its aquatic and reptilian associations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9F0B |
| 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 | 鼋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鼋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBC 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9F0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009F0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9f0b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 295E7C |
| kCangjie | XMMUU |
| kCantonese | jyun4 |
| kDefinition | large turtle, sea turtle |
| kEACC | 295E7C |
| kFourCornerCode | 1071 |
| kGB0 | 8629 |
| kHanYu | 74768.070 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74768.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1525.071 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-763D |
| kTGH | 2013:5058 |
| kKangXi | 1525.071 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7837 |
| kMandarin | yuán |
| kRSUnicode | 205'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 451.090:yuán |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "黿" U+9EFF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1420.040:yuán |