U+9FC5 "鿅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9FC5 "鿅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely unknown Chinese character, classified as an extended CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph within the Unicode standard. Its appearance is relatively modern, having been added to the Unicode repertoire as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block, which encodes historical and obscure characters. The character "鿅" is believed to be a variant or specialized form of a more common character, likely relating to archaic writing or a specific regional usage, but its exact meaning and pronunciation remain poorly documented and are not widely recognized in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean texts. This underscores the ongoing effort to digitally preserve lesser-known scripts and characters from the long history of East Asian writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FC5
Version Added	5.2
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	鿅
HTML Hex Encoding	鿅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBF 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FC5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FC5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9fc5

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	IFMBL
kIRG_JSource	JARIB-7621
kRSUnicode	113.13
kTotalStrokes	17