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Glyph for U+9996
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U+9996 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​9996

U+9996 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is shǒu.

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+9996 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Radical 185 or radical head (首部) meaning "head" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

首 is also the 187th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 39318
UTF-8 E9 A6 96
UTF-16 99 96
UTF-32 00 00 99 96
URL-Quoted %E9%A6%96
HTML hex reference 首
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 首
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E2 CF
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) BC F3
Pīnyīn shǒu

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9996
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✔
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✔
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) ADBA
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 216128
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-537B
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-537B
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) THBU
kCantonese (kCantonese) sau2
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1495.204
kCowles (kCowles) 3860
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1953.270
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185
kEACC (kEACC) 216128
kFenn (kFenn) 855C
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 458.04 459.01 460.06
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 8060.1
kFrequency (kFrequency) 3
kGB0 (kGB0) 4255
kGB1 (kGB1) 4255
kGSR (kGSR) 1102a
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 3
kHDZRadBreak (kHDZRadBreak) ⾸[U+2FB8]:74500.010
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 4571
kHanYu (kHanYu) 74500.010
kHangul (kHangul) 수:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) shǒu(492)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 74500.010:shǒu
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1953.270
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 74500.010
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1427.320
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4A57
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-ADBA
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3C73
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E4B6
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-624F
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-537B
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-6C36
kJapanese (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
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) KUBI KOUBE SHIRUSHI
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SHU SHUU
kJis0 (kJis0) 2883
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1427.320
kKorean (kKorean) SWU
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 2685
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 7445
kMandarin (kMandarin) shǒu
kMatthews (kMatthews) 5839
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 2650
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ028594
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 44489
kNelson (kNelson) 5186
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1144
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+2335+185.9.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 185.0
kSBGY (kSBGY) 322.24 435.19
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 783.11
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) shǒu粵sau2
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:1651
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 339.040:shǒu
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 7445
kTang (kTang) *shiǒu
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 9
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) thủ
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1057.010:shǒu
Xerox Code (kXerox) 244:360