U+9F8B "龋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F8B "龋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in modern and classical Chinese, where it denotes the concept of a dental cavity or tooth decay, often referred to as a "caries" or "cavity" in English. This character is composed of a radical related to teeth or bone structure on the left, and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its meaning and pronunciation within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideographic system. It is commonly employed in medical and dental contexts to describe the process of tooth erosion or the resulting hole, and it appears in vocabulary related to oral health across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F8B
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	龋
HTML Hex Encoding	龋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBE 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F8B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F8B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f8b

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	27632A
kCangjie	YUHLB
kCantonese	geoi2
kDefinition	tooth decay
kEACC	27632A
kFourCornerCode	2272
kGB0	4003
kHanYu	74798.020
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74798.020
kIRGKangXi	1536.321
kIRG_GSource	G0-4823
kTGH	2013:6220
kKangXi	1536.321
kMainlandTelegraph	7889
kMandarin	qǔ
kPhonetic	1614*
kRSUnicode	211'.9
kTGHZ2013	308.220:qǔ
kTotalStrokes	17
kTraditionalVariant	"齲" U+9F72 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0945.090:qǔ