U+9FBC "龼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
龼
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
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 |