U+9F4C "齌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9F4C "齌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that primarily functions as a phonetic component in other complex sinographs, though it also carries its own specific meaning. In classical Chinese texts, this character denotes a type of intense, searing heat or the process of boiling ingredients together, often in the context of cooking or alchemical preparations. It is composed of the radical 齊 (qi, meaning "even" or "uniform") and the phonetic element 火 (huo, meaning "fire"), visually suggesting the idea of substances being uniformly subjected to high heat. Its usage is largely confined to ancient literature, historical lexicons, and specialized references, making it an obscure but linguistically significant component of the CJK repertoire.

General Properties

Code Point U+9F4C
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 齌
HTML Hex Encoding 齌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBD 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9F4C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009F4C
C/C++/Java Escape \u9f4c

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 F1E9
kCCCII 235F75
kCNS1986 2-6535
kCNS1992 2-6535
kCangjie YXF
kCantonese cai4
kCihaiT 1571.101
kDaeJaweon 2069.070
kDefinition steam
kFanqie 七稽 祖稽 在詣
kFourCornerCode 0022.3
kGB3 7003
kHanYu 74786.040
kHanyuPinyin 74786.040:jì
kIRGDaeJaweon 2069.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74786.040
kIRGKangXi 1531.140
kIRG_GSource G3-6623
kIRG_HSource HB2-F1E9
kIRG_JSource JMJ-030064
kIRG_KPSource KP1-91F8
kIRG_KSource K2-746C
kIRG_TSource T2-6535
kJapanese セイ ザイ サイ
kKangXi 1531.140
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ030064
kMorohashi 48567
kPhonetic 56*
kRSUnicode 210.4
kSBGY 087.32 091.18 371.22
kSimplifiedVariant "𱌗" U+31317 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 HMT