U+9FA5 "龥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9FA5 "龥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that traditionally represents a concept related to speech, calling out, or a musical instrument, though its precise meaning and usage have largely faded from modern Chinese. This glyph, classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, is composed of the radical for "mouth" or "sound" combined with other elements, and it is most notably recognized as one of the characters included in the Unicode standard for historical or literary texts. Its usage is extremely limited today, appearing mainly in archaic dictionaries, classical literature, or specialized character sets, making it an obscure but valid entry in the vast repository of Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point U+9FA5
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 龥
HTML Hex Encoding 龥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBE 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9FA5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009FA5
C/C++/Java Escape \u9fa5

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 236071
kCNS1986 E-6177
kCNS1992 3-6177
kCangjie OBMBC
kCantonese jyu6
kCowles 5185
kDaeJaweon 2080.140
kDefinition beg, appeal for help
kEACC 236071
kFenn 567*
kFennIndex 648.08 655.07
kGB5 9080
kHangul 유:1N
kHanYu 74807.110
kIRGDaeJaweon 2080.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74807.110
kIRGKangXi 1538.360
kIRG_GSource G5-7A70
kIRG_HSource H-9FDD
kIRG_JSource J1-6D63
kIRG_KPSource KP1-9292
kIRG_KSource K1-6A27
kIRG_TSource T3-6177
kJapanese ヤク
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun YOBU
kJapaneseOn YAKU YU
kJis1 7767
kKangXi 1538.360
kKorean YU
kLau 3384 3542
kMandarin
kMatthews 7693
kMeyerWempe 3877
kMojiJoho MJ030170
kMorohashi 48894
kPhonetic 1527
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+20056+181.9.17 C+20056+214.17.9
kRSUnicode 214.9
kSemanticVariant U+7C72<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "𬱳" U+2CC73 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTaiwanTelegraph 7902
kTotalStrokes 26
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXerox 322:372