U+421C "䈜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

The Unicode character 421C "䈜" Private Use Area is a reserved code point within the Unicode standard that does not represent a specific, universally defined character or glyph. Instead, it is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A block designated for private or custom use, meaning that software, font designers, or individuals can assign their own meaning or symbol to this code point for specialized applications, such as in corporate fonts, custom symbols and emojis, internal text encoding, or legacy systems. Because its appearance and function are entirely dependent on the private conventions adopted by a particular user or developer, the character has no guaranteed representation across different platforms or devices, and its use outside of that private context can lead to missing or incorrectly displayed text.

General Properties

Code Point U+421C
Version Added 3.0
Name CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 䈜
HTML Hex Encoding 䈜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE4 0x88 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x421C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000421C
C/C++/Java Escape \u421c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie HOSE
kDefinition a thread used by carpenters for marking, (interchangeable 沁) to leak; to soak through
kFanqie 七鴆
kGB3 6852
kHanYu 52993.010
kHanyuPinyin 52993.010:qìn
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 52993.010
kIRGKangXi 0892.110
kIRG_GSource G3-6454
kIRG_JSource JMJ-003334
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6497
kIRG_KSource K6-103E
kIRG_TSource T4-4C2D
kIRG_VSource V2-8963
kJapanese シン
kKangXi 0892.110
kMandarin qìn
kMojiJoho MJ003334
kMorohashi 26254
kRSUnicode 118.9
kSBGY 440.30
kTotalStrokes 15