U+9FAF "龯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

龯

U+9FAF "龯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or historic Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block. Its composition typically combines the radical "金" (meaning metal or gold) with the phonetic component "戉" (a variant of 鉞), suggesting it is an alternate or variant form of the character "鉞" which denotes a battle-axe or a ceremonial weapon used in ancient China. While it is included in standard Unicode for compatibility with older and historical texts, the character is not commonly used in modern writing and may appear in specialized dictionaries or classical literature. Its code point represents a specific encoded glyph that ensures digital preservation and exchange of such noncontemporary script across different systems and platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FAF
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	龯
HTML Hex Encoding	龯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBE 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FAF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FAF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9faf

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	CIH
kCantonese	mou6
kIRG_GSource	GCA-J0167
kIRG_HSource	H-8CDA
kRSUnicode	167.5
kSimplifiedVariant	"𨱆" U+28C46 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	H