U+9F1A "鼚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F1A "鼚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character used in classical Chinese and Japanese writing, though it is extremely rare in modern usage. This character is composed of radical 鼓 (drum) and phonetic component 長 (long), and its primary meaning is "to beat a drum" or "the sound of drumming," often associated with ceremonial or military contexts in ancient texts. It is categorized under the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block within Unicode, encoded alongside tens of thousands of other East Asian ideographs to enable digital representation of historical and literary works. Due to its obscurity, it is rarely found in contemporary dictionaries or standard fonts, sometimes requiring specialized software or font support to be displayed correctly.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F1A
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	鼚
HTML Hex Encoding	鼚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBC 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F1A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F1A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f1a

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	F6D0
kCCCII	235F37
kCNS1986	2-6D3E
kCNS1992	2-6D3E
kCangjie	GESMV
kCantonese	coeng1
kCihaiT	1567.401
kDaeJaweon	2062.280
kDefinition	drumming
kEACC	235F37
kFanqie	禇羊
kFourCornerCode	4473.2
kGB3	9259
kHanYu	74765.120
kHanyuPinyin	74765.120:chāng
kIRGDaeJaweon	2062.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74765.120
kIRGKangXi	1526.280
kIRG_GSource	G3-7C5B
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F6D0
kIRG_JSource	J1-6D2E
kIRG_KSource	K2-744B
kIRG_TSource	T2-6D3E
kJapanese	チョウ
kJapaneseOn	CHOU
kJis1	7714
kKangXi	1526.280
kMandarin	chāng
kMojiJoho	MJ029993
kMorohashi	48362
kPhonetic	123
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+23037+168.8.13 C+23037+207.13.8
kRSUnicode	207.8
kSBGY	178.03
kSimplifiedVariant	"𱌊" U+3130A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTaiwanTelegraph	7855
kTotalStrokes	21
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	310:171