U+9996 "首" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+9996 "首" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram that represents the concept of a head or leader, originating from ancient Chinese script where it pictorially depicts a head with hair. In modern usage, this character carries meanings including "first," "chief," or "beginning," and appears in common compounds such as 首都 meaning capital city and 首相 meaning prime minister. Its stroke count is nine, and it belongs to the radical 首 (head) which also serves as the character's semantic component. The glyph structure combines a stylized hair motif with the radical for a face or head, reflecting its etymological roots in physical anatomy while extending to metaphorical senses of priority and authority in East Asian languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+9996
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
首
HTML Hex Encoding
首
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xA6 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x9996
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00009996
C/C++/Java Escape
\u9996
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
ADBA
kCCCII
216128
kCNS1986
1-537B
kCNS1992
1-537B
kCangjie
THBU
kCantonese
sau2
kCihaiT
1495.204
kCowles
3860
kDaeJaweon
1953.270
kDefinition
head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185
kEACC
216128
kFanqie
書九 舒救
kFenn
855C
kFennIndex
458.04 459.01 460.06
kFourCornerCode
8060.1
kGB0
4255
kGB1
4255
kGradeLevel
3
kGSR
1102a
kHangul
수:0E
kHanYu
74500.010
kHanyuPinlu
shǒu(492)
kHanyuPinyin
74500.010:shǒu
kHDZRadBreak
⾸[U+2FB8]:74500.010
kHKGlyph
4571
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74500.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-4A57
kIRG_HSource
HB1-ADBA
kIRG_JSource
J0-3C73
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E4B6
kIRG_KSource
K0-624F
kIRG_TSource
T1-537B
kIRG_VSource
V1-6C36
kJapanese
シュ シュウ くび おさ こうべ はじめ はじめる おびと しるし
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:1651
kJapaneseKun
KUBI KOUBE SHIRUSHI
kJapaneseOn
SHU SHUU
kJis0
2883
kKangXi
1427.320
kKorean
SWU
kLau
2685
kMainlandTelegraph
7445
kMandarin
shǒu
kMatthews
5839
kMeyerWempe
2650
kMojiJoho
MJ028594
kMorohashi
44489
kNelson
5186
kPhonetic
1144
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2335+185.9.0
kRSUnicode
185.0
kSBGY
322.24 435.19
kSMSZD2003Index
783.11
kSMSZD2003Readings
shǒu粵sau2
kTaiwanTelegraph
7445
kTang
*shiǒu
kTGHZ2013
339.040:shǒu
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
thủ
kXerox
244:360
kXHC1983
1057.010:shǒu