U+9F1E "鼞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9F1E "鼞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an extremely rare and archaic Chinese character that likely functions as a variant of more common characters, though its exact meaning and usage remain obscure in modern contexts. Representing a traditional logograph, it belongs to the extensive CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, which encompasses tens of thousands of historical and linguistic symbols from East Asian scripts. Due to its rarity, "鼞" is seldom encountered in contemporary writing, appearing primarily in specialized dictionaries or ancient texts, and its phonetic and semantic components suggest it may have once denoted a specific action or sound, though reliable documentation is scarce. As with many such obscure characters, its preservation in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars and language enthusiasts can access it for historical research, even as it remains largely unused in daily communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+9F1E
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 鼞
HTML Hex Encoding 鼞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBC 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9F1E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009F1E
C/C++/Java Escape \u9f1e

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 F8E9
kCCCII 235F3C
kCNS1986 2-7077
kCNS1992 2-7077
kCangjie GEFBG
kCantonese tong1
kCihaiT 1567.403
kDaeJaweon 2063.130
kFanqie 吐郎
kFourCornerCode 4410.4
kHanYu 74766.160
kHanyuPinyin 74766.160:tāng
kIRGDaeJaweon 2063.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74766.160
kIRGKangXi 1527.060
kIRG_GSource GE-577C
kIRG_HSource HB2-F8E9
kIRG_JSource JMJ-029999
kIRG_KSource K2-744E
kIRG_TSource T2-7077
kJapanese トウ
kKangXi 1527.060
kMandarin tāng
kMojiJoho MJ029999
kMorohashi 48378
kPhonetic 1382
kRSUnicode 207.11
kSBGY 182.11
kTotalStrokes 24
kUnihanCore2020 HMT