U+78C1 "磁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+78C1 "磁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "magnet" or "magnetism," and it is composed of the radical for stone (石) on the left and the phonetic component 兹 (zī) on the right, reflecting its early association with lodestone, a naturally magnetic iron ore. In modern usage, it appears in words such as 磁铁 (cí tiě) for "magnet" and 磁场 (cí chǎng) for "magnetic field," and it is also a key element in terms for ceramics like 陶瓷 (táo cí, "pottery and porcelain") due to the stone radical's connection to hard, fired materials. This character is widely used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems, as well as in Japanese and Korean Hanja, maintaining consistent meaning across these East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+78C1
Version Added 1.1
Name CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 磁
HTML Hex Encoding 磁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xA3 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x78C1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000078C1
C/C++/Java Escape \u78c1

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

kBigFive BACF
kCCCII 214E4A
kCNS1986 1-6976
kCNS1992 1-6976
kCangjie MRTVI
kCantonese ci4
kCihaiT 971.503
kCowles 4851.5 4863
kDaeJaweon 1251.110
kDefinition magnetic; magnetism; porcelain
kEACC 214E4A
kFanqie 疾之
kFenn 880B
kFennIndex 587.08
kFourCornerCode 1863.2
kGB0 2037
kGB1 2037
kGradeLevel 4
kHangul 자:0N
kHanYu 42445.060
kHanyuPinlu cí(113)
kHanyuPinyin 42445.060:cí
kHKGlyph 2836
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1251.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42445.060
kIRGKangXi 0834.140
kIRG_GSource G0-3445
kIRG_HSource HB1-BACF
kIRG_JSource J0-3C27
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E6B9
kIRG_KSource K0-6D38
kIRG_TSource T1-6976
kIRG_VSource V2-8E3D
kJapanese ジ シ
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:3093
kJapaneseKun JISHAKU YAKIMONO
kJapaneseOn JI SHI
kJis0 2807
kKangXi 0834.140
kKorean CA
kLau 288
kMainlandTelegraph 4318
kMandarin
kMatthews 6966
kMeyerWempe 3553
kMojiJoho MJ018607 MJ018607:E0101 MJ018608:E0102
kMorohashi 24364 24364:E0101
kNelson 3209
kPhonetic 132
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2259+112.5.9
kRSUnicode 112.9
kSemanticVariant U+74F7<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index 474.04
kSMSZD2003Readings cí粵ci4
kTaiwanTelegraph 4318
kTGHZ2013 055.100:cí
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 250:163
kXHC1983 0173.010:cí