U+9FE5 "鿥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9FE5 "鿥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character, primarily found in historical or specialized texts, and belongs to the vast set of East Asian ideographs used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems. Its exact meaning is not commonly defined in modern standard dictionaries, but it is generally understood as a variant or extension of characters related to semantic categories like metal or stone, often appearing in ancient documents or proper names. This character was added to the Unicode standard as part of efforts to encode infrequently used or historical CJK characters, ensuring preservation for scholarly and digital use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FE5
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	鿥
HTML Hex Encoding	鿥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBF 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FE5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FE5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9fe5

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-01185
kRSUnicode	138.17
kTotalStrokes	22