U+9FA8 "龨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9FA8 "龨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character (hanzi) that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, specifically within the supplementary set of characters encoded for compatibility and historical usage. This ideograph is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese or Japanese texts, and its exact meaning and pronunciation are often obscure or unattested in major dictionaries, though it is theorized to be a variant form or a character with a radical related to "wind" or "breath" based on its structure. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard primarily serves to preserve ancient or uncommon glyphs from historical documents, ensuring that digital representation can support the full range of East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FA8
Version Added	4.1
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	龨
HTML Hex Encoding	龨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBE 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9fa8

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

kCangjie	SOG
kCantonese	zeoi1
kIRG_HSource	H-8C74
kRSUnicode	22.8
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	H