U+9F87 "龇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F87 "龇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in modern and historical texts, primarily associated with the meaning of "to show or bare one's teeth" often in a grimace or snarl, and it is a component in words such as "龇牙咧嘴" which describes a fierce or distorted facial expression. This character falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, specifically representing a standard logograph in the Chinese writing system, with its pronunciation in Mandarin being "zī" and in Cantonese "zi1". Its structure combines a radical related to teeth or fangs with a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic and phonological derivation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F87
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	龇
HTML Hex Encoding	龇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBE 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F87
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F87
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f87

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

kCCCII	276326
kCangjie	YUYMP
kCantonese	zi1
kDefinition	to show the teeth; crooked teeth
kEACC	276326
kFourCornerCode	2271
kGB0	8623
kHanYu	74793.030
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74793.030
kIRGKangXi	1536.321
kIRG_GSource	G0-7637
kTGH	2013:5690
kKangXi	1536.321
kMandarin	zī
kRSUnicode	211'.6
kTGHZ2013	491.140:zī
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"齜" U+9F5C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1530.040:zī