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Glyph for U+9F9C
Source: Noto CJK

U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​9F9C

U+9F9C 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 turtle or tortoise; cuckold; Kangxi radical 213. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is guī.

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+9F9C offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 4 other glyphs.

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 龜
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) CF CF
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) F3 FD
Pīnyīn guī

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F9C
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+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
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+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
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+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
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+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
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+9F9C CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) C074
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 21632D
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-733F
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-733F
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) NXU
kCantonese (kCantonese) gwai1
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1577.101
kCowles (kCowles) 2058
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 2078.180
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) turtle or tortoise; cuckold; Kangxi radical 213
kEACC (kEACC) 21632D
kFenn (kFenn) 316G
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 272.04
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 2711.7 2771.6
kFrequency (kFrequency) 4
kGB1 (kGB1) 2574
kGSR (kGSR) 0985a
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 4
kHDZRadBreak (kHDZRadBreak) ⿔[U+2FD4]:74809.010
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 4759
kHanYu (kHanYu) 74809.010 74809.040
kHangul (kHangul) 구:0EN 귀:0N 균:0N
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) guī(11)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 74809.010:guī,qiū,jūn
kIICore (kIICore) ATHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 2078.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 74809.040
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1538.010
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G1-396A
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-C074
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-737D
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-D1B7
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-4F4F
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-733F
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V2-9171
kJapanese (kJapanese) キ キュウ ク キン コン かめ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) KAME
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) KI KYUU KIN
kJis0 (kJis0) 8393
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1538.010
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 462
kKorean (kKorean) KWU KYUN KWI
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kLau (kLau) 1028
kMandarin (kMandarin) guī
kMatthews (kMatthews) 3621
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 1368
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ030155 MJ030155:E0102 MJ030157:E0103 MJ030154:E0104 MJ030158:E0105 MJ030156:E0106 MJ059288:E0109
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 48848:E0103 48847:E0106
kNelson (kNelson) 5445
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 709
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+7472+213.16.0 V+7886+213.18.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 213.0
kSBGY (kSBGY) 055.25 208.21
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 833.16 834.01 834.02
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) guī粵gwai1 jūn粵gwan1 qiū粵gau1
Simplified Variant (kSimplifiedVariant) Glyph for U+9F9F U+9F9F
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 7898
kTang (kTang) giou gyui
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 17
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HJKMPT
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0418.061:guī 0624.021:jūn 0939.101:qiū
Xerox Code (kXerox) 252:123