Classification
Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.
- Codepoint
- U+9996
- Decimal
- 39318
- Plane
- BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
- Category
- Other Letter (Lo)
- Block
- CJK Unified Ideographs
- Script
- Han
- Bidi class
- L Left-to-Right
- East Asian Width
- W Wide
- Properties
- Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue
Encodings & Escape Sequences
Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Cjk Ideograph-9996.
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| Format | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Decimal |
首
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| HTML Hex |
首
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| UTF-8 Hex Bytes |
E9 A6 96
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| UTF-16 Hex Bytes |
99 96
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| UTF-32 Hex |
00009996
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| CSS Escape |
\9996
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| JavaScript Escape |
\u9996
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| Python Escape |
\u9996
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| URL Encoded |
%E9%A6%96
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Unihan Data
Readings and dictionary data from the Unicode Han Database (Unihan).
- Definition
- head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185
- Mandarin (Pinyin)
- shǒu
- Cantonese (Jyutping)
- sau2
- Japanese On
- SHU SHUU
- Japanese Kun
- KUBI KOUBE SHIRUSHI
- Korean
- SWU
- Vietnamese
- thủ
Characters That Include This
These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Cjk Ideograph-9996 as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.