U+9F2C "鼬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鼬
U+9F2C "鼬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes a weasel or ferret, often associated with the weasel's cunning and mischievous nature in East Asian culture. In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean usage, it appears in compound words and contexts related to animals, folklore, or natural history. The character is composed of radical components that hint at its meaning, such as the "rat" or "mouse" radical, reflecting the weasel's ecological role as a rodent predator. Its pronunciation varies by language, being "yòu" in Mandarin Chinese and "itachi" in Japanese, where it also evokes mythical beliefs about the creature's supernatural abilities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9F2C |
| 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 | 鼬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鼬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBC 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9F2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009F2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9f2c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C35E |
| kCCCII | 216279 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-782A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-782A |
| kCangjie | HVLW |
| kCantonese | jau6 |
| kCihaiT | 1568.206 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2064.320 |
| kDefinition | weasel, Mustela itatsi |
| kEACC | 216279 |
| kFanqie | 余救 |
| kFenn | 818K |
| kFennIndex | 640.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7571.6 |
| kGB0 | 8788 |
| kGB1 | 8788 |
| kGSR | 1079d |
| kHangul | 유:1N |
| kHanYu | 74773.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74773.120:yòu |
| kHKGlyph | 4742 |
| kIICore | AGTJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2064.320 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74773.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1528.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7778 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C35E |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-736C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-91AC |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A26 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-782A |
| kJapanese | ユウ ユ いたち |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6350 |
| kJapaneseKun | ITACHI |
| kJapaneseOn | YUU YU |
| kJis0 | 8376 |
| kKangXi | 1528.140 |
| kKarlgren | 253 |
| kKorean | YU |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7860 |
| kMandarin | yòu |
| kMatthews | 7518 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ030018 MJ030018:E0101 MJ030019:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 48427 48427:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5418 |
| kPhonetic | 1512 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7455+208.13.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 208.5 |
| kSBGY | 437.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 829.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yòu粵jau6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7860 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 445.100:yòu |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 273:055 |
| kXHC1983 | 1405.090:yòu |