U+9F9C "龜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
龜
U+9F9C "龜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character representing the turtle or tortoise, a creature deeply symbolic in East Asian cultures for longevity, wisdom, and endurance. This ideograph is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified block and has various historical and stylistic forms, including simplified variants used in different regions. In ancient China, the character was also associated with divination practices, as turtle shells were inscribed with oracle bone script. Its complex stroke count makes it a notable character in calligraphy and character recognition studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9F9C |
| 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 | 龜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 龜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBE 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9F9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009F9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9f9c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C074 |
| kCCCII | 21632D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-733F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-733F |
| kCangjie | NXU |
| kCantonese | gwai1 |
| kCihaiT | 1577.101 |
| kCowles | 2058 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2078.180 |
| kDefinition | turtle or tortoise; cuckold; Kangxi radical 213 |
| kEACC | 21632D |
| kFanqie | 居追 居求 |
| kFenn | 316G |
| kFennIndex | 272.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2711.7 2771.6 |
| kGB1 | 2574 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0985a |
| kHangul | 구:0EN 귀:0N 균:0N |
| kHanYu | 74809.010 74809.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | guī(11) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74809.010:guī,qiū,jūn |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⿔[U+2FD4]:74809.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 4759 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2078.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74809.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1538.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-396A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C074 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-737D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1B7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F4F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-733F |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-9171 |
| kJapanese | キ キュウ ク キン コン かめ |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAME |
| kJapaneseOn | KI KYUU KIN |
| kJis0 | 8393 |
| kKangXi | 1538.010 |
| kKarlgren | 462 |
| kKorean | KWU KYUN KWI |
| kLau | 1028 |
| kMandarin | guī |
| kMatthews | 3621 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1368 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ030155 MJ030155:E0102 MJ030157:E0103 MJ030154:E0104 MJ030158:E0105 MJ030156:E0106 MJ059288:E0109 |
| kMorohashi | 48848:E0103 48847:E0106 |
| kNelson | 5445 |
| kPhonetic | 709 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7472+213.16.0 V+7886+213.18.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 213.0 |
| kSBGY | 055.25 208.21 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "龟" U+9F9F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 833.16 834.01 834.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | guī粵gwai1 jūn粵gwan1 qiū粵gau1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7898 |
| kTang | giou gyui |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 252:123 |
| kXHC1983 | 0418.061:guī 0624.021:jūn 0939.101:qiū |