U+9F1C "鼜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鼜

U+9F1C "鼜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that historically referred to a type of drum or the act of beating a drum, often associated with military or ceremonial signaling in ancient texts. It is composed of the radical "鼓" meaning drum, combined with phonetic and semantic components that suggest a sense of urgency or a particular rhythm. This character appears in classical Chinese literature, such as in the "Book of Songs" (Shijing), where it evokes the sound or action of drumming to mark time or alert troops. Due to its specialized usage and limited modern application, "鼜" is seldom used in contemporary Chinese writing and is primarily of interest to scholars of ancient philology and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F1C
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	鼜
HTML Hex Encoding	鼜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBC 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F1C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F1C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f1c

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	F879
kCCCII	235F3B
kCNS1986	2-7029
kCNS1992	2-7029
kCangjie	GEEII
kCantonese	cik1
kCihaiT	1567.402
kDaeJaweon	2063.020
kFanqie	七到倉歷
kFourCornerCode	4413.6
kGB3	9265
kGSR	1112i
kHanYu	74766.130
kHanyuPinyin	74766.130:qì,cào
kIRGDaeJaweon	2063.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74766.130
kIRGKangXi	1527.030
kIRG_GSource	G3-7C61
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F879
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-029997
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-9196
kIRG_KSource	K2-744D
kIRG_TSource	T2-7029
kJapanese	セキシャクソウ
kKangXi	1527.030
kMandarin	qì
kMojiJoho	MJ029997
kMorohashi	48374
kPhonetic	224
kRSUnicode	207.10
kSBGY	524.03
kTotalStrokes	22
kUnihanCore2020	HMT