U+9F9B "龛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
龛
U+9F9B "龛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a small shrine, niche, or alcove used to house religious statues, ancestral tablets, or sacred objects, often found in temples, homes, or burial sites. Its structure combines the radical for a "dragon" or "lofty" element with components suggesting a container or recess, while semantically it conveys a sense of enclosure for veneration. Historically, the character appears in classical texts and inscriptions related to Buddhist, Taoist, or Confucian practices, and in modern usage it is typically encountered in contexts involving funerary architecture, religious art, or descriptions of miniature sanctums.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9F9B |
| 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 | 龛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 龛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBE 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9F9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009F9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9f9b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 296062 |
| kCangjie | ORIKP |
| kCantonese | ham1 |
| kDefinition | niche, shrine |
| kEACC | 296062 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8041 |
| kGB0 | 7772 |
| kHanYu | 74806.010 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74806.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1537.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6D68 |
| kTGH | 2013:4919 |
| kKangXi | 1537.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7896 |
| kMandarin | kān |
| kRSUnicode | 212'.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 37.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 192.170:kān |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "龕" U+9F95 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0632.010:kān |