U+9FA9 "龩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9FA9 "龩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, specifically positioned in the supplementary range reserved for less common or historical glyphs. This character is believed to represent a variant or obsolete form of a more standard Chinese ideograph, though its precise meaning and usage remain obscure due to its obscurity in modern written language. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded at a point that reflects a level of script coverage for CJK characters that have been identified from historical dictionaries, classical texts, or regional orthographies, but it is not typically used in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing. As such, U+9FA9 serves primarily as a technical placeholder for a particular visual pattern of strokes and radicals within the vast repository of East Asian ideographic scripts, preserving it for digital representation despite its minimal practical utility.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FA9
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	龩
HTML Hex Encoding	龩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBE 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FA9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FA9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9fa9

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	TTJL
kCantonese	gan3
kIRG_HSource	H-8CB7
kRSUnicode	140.13
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	H