U+9F53 "齓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9F53 "齓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that primarily refers to the gums of the teeth, often depicting the fleshy tissue surrounding the roots of the teeth, and it is a variant or older form of the more common character "齦" (gum). This ideograph belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, meaning it is used across these writing systems with the same or similar semantic and phonetic value, though its usage in modern texts is extremely limited, often appearing only in specialized historical or philological contexts such as classical literature or etymological studies. The character itself combines the radical for "tooth" or "fang" (齒) with a phonetic component, reflecting its structural composition as a logogram that encapsulates both meaning and sound within the traditional Chinese writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+9F53
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 齓
HTML Hex Encoding 齓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBD 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9F53
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009F53
C/C++/Java Escape \u9f53

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

kCNS1986 E-543E
kCNS1992 3-543E
kCangjie YUU
kCantonese can3
kCihaiT 1571.501
kDaeJaweon 2070.070
kFanqie 初謹
kGB5 8393
kHanYu 74788.030
kIRGDaeJaweon 2070.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74788.030
kIRGKangXi 1532.140
kIRG_GSource G5-737D
kIRG_HSource H-9FEE
kIRG_JSource J14-7E6B
kIRG_KPSource KP1-91FF
kIRG_KSource K2-746F
kIRG_TSource T3-543E
kJapanese シン ソン トン
kJIS0213 2,94,75
kJapaneseKun KAKEBA
kJapaneseOn SHIN SON TON
kJis1 7737
kKangXi 1532.140
kMandarin chèn
kMojiJoho MJ030073
kMorohashi 48585
kPhonetic 157 1634A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19120+5.1.15 C+19120+211.15.1
kRSUnicode 211.1
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 H