U+9F2A "鼪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F2A "鼪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically significant logogram from the Chinese writing system, primarily used in classical texts to denote a "weasel" or "ferret" like animal. Composed of the radical for "mouse" or "rat" and a phonetic component, it belongs to the set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs, meaning it can represent the same concept across these languages with potential variations in pronunciation and usage. In modern contexts, the character is largely obsolete, surviving mainly in specialized lexicons, ancient literature, or scholarly discussions of traditional Chinese zoological terminology. Its encoding in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital preservation of such heritage characters remains possible, allowing accurate representation of historical documents and specialized academic work.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F2A
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	鼪
HTML Hex Encoding	鼪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBC 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F2A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F2A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f2a

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	F1E6
kCCCII	235F4C
kCNS1986	2-6532
kCNS1992	2-6532
kCangjie	HVHQM
kCantonese	sang1
kCihaiT	1568.301
kDaeJaweon	2064.280
kDefinition	weasel
kFanqie	所庚 所敬
kFourCornerCode	7571.1
kGB3	9274
kGSR	0812u
kHanYu	74774.020
kHanyuPinyin	74774.020:shēng
kIRGDaeJaweon	2064.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74774.020
kIRGKangXi	1528.110
kIRG_GSource	G3-7C6A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F1E6
kIRG_JSource	J1-6D33
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-91A8
kIRG_KSource	K2-7456
kIRG_TSource	T2-6532
kJapanese	セイ ソウ ショウ
kJapaneseKun	ITACHI
kJapaneseOn	SEI SHOU
kJis1	7719
kKangXi	1528.110
kMandarin	shēng
kMojiJoho	MJ030016
kMorohashi	48423
kPhonetic	1130
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+20050+100.5.13 C+20050+208.13.5
kRSUnicode	208.5
kSBGY	187.09 430.17
kTaiwanTelegraph	9641
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	315:052