U+9F28 "鼨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F28 "鼨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that historically refers to a type of bamboo rat or a small burrowing rodent, often associated with the character "鼢" in classical texts. It belongs to the radical 鼠 (meaning "rat" or "mouse") and is composed of 18 strokes, reflecting its intricate structure. This character appears in ancient Chinese dictionaries like the Kangxi Zidian, where it is defined as a creature resembling a rat that lives underground and feeds on bamboo roots. In modern usage, U+9F28 is extremely obscure and seldom used in contemporary writing, functioning primarily as a linguistic artifact preserved in historical and etymological studies of Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F28
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	鼨
HTML Hex Encoding	鼨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBC 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F28
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F28
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f28

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	F1E8
kCCCII	235F4E
kCNS1986	2-6534
kCNS1992	2-6534
kCangjie	HVHEY
kCantonese	zung1
kCihaiT	1568.304
kDaeJaweon	2064.240
kFanqie	職戎
kFourCornerCode	7771.3
kGB3	9276
kHanYu	74774.070
kHanyuPinyin	74774.070:zhōng
kIRGDaeJaweon	2064.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74774.070
kIRGKangXi	1528.090
kIRG_GSource	G3-7C6C
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F1E8
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-030012
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-91A9
kIRG_KSource	K2-7454
kIRG_TSource	T2-6534
kJapanese	シュウ シュ トウ ズ
kKangXi	1528.090
kMandarin	zhōng
kMojiJoho	MJ030012 MJ030012:E0100 MJ030013:E0101
kMorohashi	48421 48421:E0100
kRSUnicode	208.5
kSBGY	025.06
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT