U+9F99 CJK Unified Ideograph-9F99
U+9F99 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as dragon; symbolic of emperor. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is lóng.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+9F99 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Radical 212, 龍, 龙, or 竜 meaning "dragon", is one of the two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes. The character arose as a stylized drawing of a Chinese dragon, and refers to a version of the dragon in each East Asian culture:
- Chinese dragon, Lóng in Chinese
- Japanese dragon, Ryū or Tatsu in Japanese
- Korean dragon, Ryong or Yong in Korean
- Vietnamese dragon, Rồng in Vietnamese
It may also refer to the Dragon as it appears in the Chinese zodiac. It is used as the symbol for Tatsu, a roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, in California.
In the Kangxi Dictionary 14 characters (out of 40,000) are under this radical.
It occurs as a phonetic complement in some fairly common Chinese characters, for example 聾 = "deaf", which is composed of 龍 "dragon" and the "ear" 耳 radical, "a word with meaning related to ears and pronounced similarly to 龍": "dragon gives sound, ear gives meaning".
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 40857 |
UTF-8 | E9 BE 99 |
UTF-16 | 9F 99 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 9F 99 |
URL-Quoted | %E9%BE%99 |
HTML hex reference | 龙 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | é¾™ |
Pīnyīn | lóng |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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27632B | |
IKP | |
lung4 | |
dragon; symbolic of emperor | |
27632B | |
4301 | |
2 | |
3390 | |
74804.010 | |
lóng(76) | |
AG | |
74804.010 | |
1537.251 | |
G0-417A | |
H-89C8 | |
TF-2159 | |
1537.251 | |
7893 | |
lóng | |
856 923 | |
212'.0 | |
2013:221 | |
229.160:lóng | |
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0730.110:lóng |