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U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C

U+9F9C was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 turtle or tortoise; cuckold; Kangxi radical 213. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is guī.

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 4 other glyphs. In text U+9F9C 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 213 meaning "turtle" is one of only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only 24 characters (out of 40,000) to be found under this radical.
In Taoist cosmology, 龜 (Polyhedron) is the nature component of the Ba gua diagram 坎 Kǎn.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	40860
UTF-8	E9 BE 9C
UTF-16	9F 9C
UTF-32	00 00 9F 9C
URL-Quoted	%E9%BE%9C
HTML hex reference	龜
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	é¾œ
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes)	CF CF
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes)	F3 FD
Pīnyīn	guī

Related Characters

Confusables

CJK Compatibility Ideograph-F907

CJK Compatibility Ideograph-F908

CJK Compatibility Ideograph-Face

Kangxi Radical Turtle

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F9C
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Han
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Simple Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✔
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✔
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Wide
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Ideographic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U
Big Five Mapping	C074
CCCII Mapping	21632D
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping	1-733F
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping	1-733F
Cangjie Input Code	NXU
kCantonese	gwai1
kCihaiT	1577.101
kCowles	2058
kDaeJaweon	2078.180
Unihan Definition	turtle or tortoise; cuckold; Kangxi radical 213
kEACC	21632D
kFenn	316G
kFennIndex	272.04
kFourCornerCode	2711.7 2771.6
kFrequency	4
kGB1	2574
kGSR	0985a
kGradeLevel	4
kHDZRadBreak	⿔[U+2FD4]:74809.010
kHKGlyph	4759
kHanYu	74809.010 74809.040
kHangul	구:0EN 귀:0N 균:0N
kHanyuPinlu	guī(11)
kHanyuPinyin	74809.010:guī,qiū,jūn
kIICore	ATHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	2078.180
kIRGDaiKanwaZiten	48847
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74809.040
kIRGKangXi	1538.010
kIRG_GSource	G1-396A
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C074
kIRG_JSource	J0-737D
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D1B7
kIRG_KSource	K0-4F4F
kIRG_TSource	T1-733F
kIRG_VSource	V2-9171
kJapaneseKun	KAME
kJapaneseOn	KI KYUU KIN
kJis0	8393
kKPS0	D1B7
kKSC0	4747
kKangXi	1538.010
kKarlgren	462
kKorean	KWU KYUN KWI
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kKoreanName	2015
kLau	1028
kMandarin	guī
kMatthews	3621
kMeyerWempe	1368
kMorohashi	48847
kNelson	5445
kPhonetic	709
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6)	C+7472+213.16.0 V+7886+213.18.0
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi)	213.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode)	213.0
kSBGY	055.25 208.21
Simplified Variant	U+9F9F
Taiwanese Telegraph Code	7898
kTang	giou gyui
Stroke Number	17
UnihanCore2020 Set	HJKMPT
kXHC1983	0418.061:guī 0624.021:jūn 0939.101:qiū
Xerox Code	252:123

U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​9F9C