U+9FCE "鿎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9FCE "鿎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character included in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, specifically an extension used for historical or regional writing. It is composed of the radical for stone or rock combined with other elements, and its pronunciation and meaning are not widely standardized in modern standard Mandarin, though it appears in some classical or dialectal texts. This character is part of the broader effort by the Unicode Consortium to encode all historically significant Chinese characters, even those with very limited contemporary usage, ensuring digital preservation of script variations. Its rarity means that not all fonts or systems display it correctly, often appearing as a placeholder or blank square without proper support.

General Properties

Code Point U+9FCE
Version Added 8.0
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 鿎
HTML Hex Encoding 鿎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBF 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9FCE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009FCE
C/C++/Java Escape \u9fce

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

kCantonese daat6
kDefinition (tǎ) place name in Zhejiang; (dá) cobblestone, water gate, place name in Guangdong
kFourCornerCode 1463.3
kIRG_GSource GFC-022
kTGH 2013:7146
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 112.6
kTGHZ2013 061.150:dá 355.110:tǎ
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "䃮" U+40EE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G