U+9FD6 "鿖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9FD6 "鿖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character included in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, a standard part of the Unicode encoding system designed to support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts. This specific character falls into the category of ideographs composed from simpler radical components, though its exact meaning and usage are obscure; it does not appear in common modern Chinese dictionaries or everyday text, suggesting it was likely included for historical or specialist purposes, such as recording archaic or regional vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that even obscure or ancient characters can be digitally represented for scholarly, linguistic, or archival work, preserving the full breadth of written Chinese heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FD6
Version Added	10.0
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	鿖
HTML Hex Encoding	鿖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBF 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FD6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FD6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9fd6

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

kIRG_USource	UTC-01197
kRSUnicode	1.6
kTotalStrokes	7