This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as chickens; domestic fowl. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is jī.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+96DE offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Rooster (simplified Chinese: 鸡; traditional Chinese: 雞/鷄) is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch symbol 酉.
In the Tibetan zodiac and the Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the Rooster.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
38622
UTF-8
E9 9B 9E
UTF-16
96 DE
UTF-32
00 00 96 DE
URL-Quoted
%E9%9B%9E
HTML hex reference
雞
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
雞
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
C2 FB
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
C2 FB
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
C2 FB
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
8F E6 F8
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
FD E2
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
FD E2
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
EB 75
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
EB 75
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 28 44 66 78 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 28 44 66 78 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 28 51 7D 62 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 28 4F 7D 62 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 28 44 66 78 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
EF 82
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
EF 82
Pīnyīn
jī
RFC 5137
\u'96DE'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u96DE
C and C++
\u96DE
C#
\u96DE
CSS
\0096DE
Excel
=UNICHAR(38622)
Go
\u96DE
JavaScript
\u96DE
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{96de}
JSON
\u96DE
Java
\u96DE
Lua
\u{96DE}
Matlab
char(38622)
Perl
"\x{96DE}"
PHP
\u{96de}
PostgreSQL
U&'\96DE'
PowerShell
`u{96DE}
Python
\u96DE
Ruby
\u{96de}
Rust
\u{96de}
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