U+9FFC "鿼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9FFC "鿼" 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 to support the vast and evolving inventory of historical and regional Chinese scripts. Its exact meaning and usage are not widely documented in standard dictionaries, as it appears to be a specialized or archaic form, possibly representing a variant of a more common character or a character used in nonstandard contexts such as personal names, transcriptions, or ancient texts. The encoding of such characters, including U+9FFC, underscores the ongoing effort by the Unicode Consortium to preserve and digitize the full breadth of written Chinese, ensuring that even obscure or seldom-used ideographs are accessible for digital communication and scholarly research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FFC
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	鿼
HTML Hex Encoding	鿼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBF 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FFC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FFC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9ffc

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	gaa1
kIRG_GSource	GKJ-00212
kMandarin	jiā
kRSUnicode	208.5
kTotalStrokes	18