U+9FD8 "鿘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9FD8 "鿘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character belonging to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, standardized for digital text encoding. It is not typically found in modern common usage; its meaning and pronunciation are obscure, often requiring specialized dictionaries or scholarly resources for identification. This character may represent an ancient or regional variant of a more familiar Hanzi, or it could be a transitory glyph used in historical or liturgical texts, such as those found in Buddhist scripture transcriptions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that such rare and specialized ideographs remain digitally preserved and accessible for linguistic and historical research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FD8
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	鿘
HTML Hex Encoding	鿘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBF 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FD8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FD8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9fd8

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-01196
kRSUnicode	9.10
kTotalStrokes	12