U+9FF9 "鿹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9FF9 "鿹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an infrequently used Han character found in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, primarily associated with historical or specialized Chinese and Japanese texts. It represents a complex logograph whose meaning and pronunciation are largely obsolete or highly context specific, often appearing in classical literature or technical terminology rather than modern everyday usage. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that rare and ancient characters can be accurately digitized and preserved for scholarly research, linguistic studies, and historical documentation. As part of the extended CJK range, this character exemplifies the ongoing effort to encode the vast diversity of East Asian writing systems, including obscure or regionally specific ideographs that might otherwise be lost to digital representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+9FF9
Version Added 13.0
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 鿹
HTML Hex Encoding 鿹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBF 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9FF9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009FF9
C/C++/Java Escape \u9ff9

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 mat6
kIRG_GSource GKJ-00204
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 195'.11
kTotalStrokes 19
kTraditionalVariant "𬵨" U+2CD68 CJK Unified Ideograph-#