U+9EEF "黯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

黯
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+9EEF "黯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "dark," "dim," or "gloomy," often used to describe deep blackness or a somber atmosphere. It combines the radical 黑 (black, dark) with the phonetic component 音 (sound, tone), though the phonetic clue is not exact in modern pronunciation. In classical Chinese literature, this character frequently appears in poetic contexts to evoke melancholy, obscurity, or the fading of light, such as in phrases like "黯然失色" meaning to be overshadowed or lose luster. It is commonly used in both literary and modern Chinese to convey a sense of deep, quiet darkness or emotional heaviness.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+9EEF
Version Added
1.1
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
黯
HTML Hex Encoding
黯
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xBB 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x9EEF
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00009EEF
C/C++/Java Escape
\u9eef

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

kBigFive
C566
kCCCII
216270
kCNS1986
1-7B52
kCNS1992
1-7B52
kCangjie
WFYTA
kCantonese
am2
kCihaiT
1564.303
kDaeJaweon
2056.170
kDefinition
dark, black; sullen, dreary
kEACC
216270
kFanqie
乙咸 乙減
kFourCornerCode
6036.1
kGB0
8786
kGB1
8786
kHangul
암:1N
kHanYu
74753.160
kHanyuPinlu
àn(8)
kHanyuPinyin
74753.160:àn,ān
kHKGlyph
4732
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74753.160
kIRG_GSource
G0-7776
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C566
kIRG_JSource
J0-735F
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-9125
kIRG_KSource
K1-664E
kIRG_TSource
T1-7B52
kIRG_VSource
V2-916C
kJapanese
アン オン くらい くろい
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3493
kJapaneseKun
KUROI KURAI
kJapaneseOn
AN
kJis0
8363
kKangXi
1521.230
kKorean
AM
kMainlandTelegraph
7826
kMandarin
àn
kMatthews
39
kMeyerWempe
2151d
kMojiJoho
MJ029929 MJ029929:E0101 MJ029930:E0102 MJ029931:E0103
kMorohashi
48159 48159:E0101
kNelson
5411
kPhonetic
1473
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+7442+180.9.12 C+7442+203.12.9
kRSUnicode
203.9 180.12
kSBGY
230.08 337.09
kSMSZD2003Index
826.12
kSMSZD2003Readings
àn粵am2
kTaiwanTelegraph
7826
kTang
*qæ̌m
kTGHZ2013
004.080:àn
kTotalStrokes
21
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
262:135
kXHC1983
0009.020:àn