U+9F0C "鼌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鼌
U+9F0C "鼌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that historically refers to a type of turtle or tortoise, often specifically associated with the sea turtle or a legendary creature in classical texts. Its structure combines the radical for turtle or reptile with additional phonetic and semantic components, appearing in ancient literature such as the Erya dictionary and later in poetic or scholarly works. While not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese, it survives as an obscure variant and is valued in historical linguistics and paleography for its connection to early aquatic symbolism and mythological taxonomy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9F0C |
| 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 | 鼌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鼌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBC 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9F0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009F0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9f0c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 295E7D |
| kCangjie | XAMRU |
| kCantonese | ciu4 |
| kGB8 | 1491 |
| kHanYu | 74769.021 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74769.021 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1525.071 |
| kIRG_GSource | G8-2E7B |
| kKangXi | 1525.071 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7839 |
| kMandarin | cháo |
| kPhonetic | 1296* |
| kRSUnicode | 205'.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鼂" U+9F02 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |