U+9FD7 "鿗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9FD7 "鿗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and relatively recently encoded Chinese character, added to the Unicode Standard as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block. This character is not commonly found in standard modern Chinese texts, as it belongs to a set of obscure or archaic glyphs used primarily in specialized historical or religious contexts. Its exact meaning and pronunciation are not well documented in mainstream dictionaries, but it may appear in transcriptions of Buddhist scriptures or in other classical writings where rare sinographs are used to represent specific terms or names. As with many such obscure characters, its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve digital representation of these infrequent but important cultural artifacts across different computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FD7
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	鿗
HTML Hex Encoding	鿗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBF 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FD7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FD7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9fd7

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-01198
kRSUnicode	1.8
kTotalStrokes	9