U+9F16 "鼖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F16 "鼖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that represents a specific type of ancient ceremonial drum, typically one with a large frame and a deep, resonant sound, used in classical rituals and court music. This logograph is composed of the radical for "drum" (鼔) combined with other elements that signify its grand or adorned nature, and it appears in classical texts and historical records as a specialized term for this instrument. While not commonly used in modern everyday writing, it persists in scholarly contexts, historical studies, and traditional Chinese musicology, preserving an element of ancient cultural and musical heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F16
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	鼖
HTML Hex Encoding	鼖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBC 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F16
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F16
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f16

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

kBigFive	F1E3
kCCCII	235F33
kCNS1986	2-652F
kCNS1992	2-652F
kCangjie	JTGE
kCantonese	fan4
kCihaiT	1567.203
kDaeJaweon	2062.040
kDefinition	drum
kEACC	235F33
kFanqie	符分
kFourCornerCode	4014.7
kGB5	9054
kGSR	0438f
kHanYu	74764.060 74764.140
kHanyuPinyin	74764.060,74764.140:fén
kIRGDaeJaweon	2062.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74764.060
kIRGKangXi	1526.130
kIRG_GSource	G5-7A56
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F1E3
kIRG_JSource	J1-6D2B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-918A
kIRG_KSource	K2-7449
kIRG_TSource	T2-652F
kJapanese	フン
kJapaneseKun	OOTSUZUMI
kJapaneseOn	FUN
kJis1	7711
kKangXi	1526.130
kMandarin	fén
kMojiJoho	MJ029988 MJ029988:E0101 MJ029989:E0102
kMorohashi	48344 48344:E0101 48350:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+23036+207.13.5
kRSUnicode	207.5
kSBGY	110.36
kTaiwanTelegraph	7852
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	310:167