U+9998 "馘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+9998 "馘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes the act of severing a head, specifically the left ear of a slain enemy as a trophy in ancient warfare, a practice tied to counting battle casualties. Its semantic components include the radical for "head" or "page" (頁) alongside a phonetic element, reflecting its historical usage in classical texts like the Zuo Zhuan. In modern contexts, it appears in literary or historical discussions rather than everyday language, sometimes extended metaphorically to signify execution or drastic elimination.
General Properties
Code Point
U+9998
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
馘
HTML Hex Encoding
馘
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xA6 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0x9998
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00009998
C/C++/Java Escape
\u9998
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
EF55
kCCCII
235230
kCNS1986
2-6061
kCNS1992
2-6061
kCangjie
TUIRM
kCantonese
gwik1
kCihaiT
1495.602
kDaeJaweon
1954.170
kDefinition
cut off left ear; tally dead enemy
kEACC
235230
kFanqie
古獲 古或
kFourCornerCode
8365.0
kGB0
5769
kGB1
5769
kGSR
0929u
kHangul
괵:1N
kHanYu
74501.210
kHanyuPinyin
74501.210:guó,xù
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74501.210
kIRG_GSource
G0-5965
kIRG_HSource
HB2-EF55
kIRG_JSource
J0-7145
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-892A
kIRG_KSource
K1-5A2B
kIRG_TSource
T2-6061
kJapanese
カク コク ケキ ゲキ キャク くびきる みみきる
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:7971
kJapaneseKun
MIMIKIRU KUBIKIRU
kJapaneseOn
KAKU
kJis0
8137
kKangXi
1428.130
kKarlgren
118
kKorean
KOYK
kMainlandTelegraph
7446
kMandarin
guó
kMatthews
3743
kMeyerWempe
1406e
kMojiJoho
MJ028597
kMorohashi
44507
kNelson
5187
kPhonetic
1416
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+7228+185.9.8
kRSUnicode
185.8
kSBGY
513.33
kSemanticVariant
U+805D<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index
783.13
kSMSZD2003Readings
guó粵gwok3 xù粵gwik1
kTaiwanTelegraph
7446
kTGHZ2013
126.130:guó
kTotalStrokes
17
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
301:074
kXHC1983
0426.050:guó