U+9F99 "龙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
龙
U+9F99 "龙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is the traditional Japanese kyujitai and Chinese character for "dragon," representing a mythical creature deeply embedded in East Asian folklore, symbolizing power, strength, and good fortune. It is visually characterized by its distinct strokes forming a sinuous, serpentine shape with a prominent head and claws, and it unifies variant glyphs across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. In modern usage, this character appears in names, idioms, and cultural references, often conveying a sense of majesty or auspiciousness, while its simplified Chinese counterpart is 龙 (U+9F99 in the simplified block).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9F99 |
| 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 | 龙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 龙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBE 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9F99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009F99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9f99 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27632B |
| kCangjie | IKP |
| kCantonese | lung4 |
| kDefinition | dragon; symbolic of emperor |
| kEACC | 27632B |
| kFourCornerCode | 4301 |
| kGB0 | 3390 |
| kHanYu | 74804.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lóng(76) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74804.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1537.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-417A |
| kIRG_HSource | H-89C8 |
| kIRG_TSource | TF-2159 |
| kTGH | 2013:221 |
| kKangXi | 1537.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7893 |
| kMandarin | lóng |
| kPhonetic | 856 923 |
| kRSUnicode | 212'.0 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 229.160:lóng |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "龍" U+9F8D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0730.110:lóng |