U+9FBC "龼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9FBC "龼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an extremely rare and obscure Chinese character, belonging to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard. Its precise meaning and usage are not well documented, as it does not appear in standard modern dictionaries or common texts, and it is primarily included in the Unicode repertoire to encode ancient or rarely used logographs from historical Chinese scripts. The character is considered a historic variant or an otherwise rarely attested glyph, often serving as a placeholder for a specific ideograph whose exact form or usage has been lost over time, highlighting the challenges of comprehensively digitizing the vast corpus of East Asian writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+9FBC
Version Added 5.1
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 龼
HTML Hex Encoding 龼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBE 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9FBC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009FBC
C/C++/Java Escape \u9fbc

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 GYBU
kIRG_JSource JMJ-059459
kIRG_USource UTC-00836
kJapanese セン ケイ エイ
kMojiJoho MJ059459
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+15431+32.3.14
kRSUnicode 32.14
kTotalStrokes 17