U+9209 "鈉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鈉
U+9209 "鈉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the element sodium, often seen in chemical contexts. It is formed with the radical 金 (jīn, meaning metal or gold) on the left, indicating its metallic nature, and the phonetic component 内 (nèi, meaning inside) on the right. This character is used in both traditional Chinese and Japanese writing, particularly in scientific and technical texts where it denotes the chemical element with atomic number 11. In simplified Chinese, it is written as 钠, while the traditional form 鈉 retains its original structure. Overall, U+9209 serves as a specific linguistic tool for referencing sodium in East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9209 |
| 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 | 鈉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鈉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x88 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9209 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009209 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9209 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B675 |
| kCCCII | 215D4A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-625C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-625C |
| kCangjie | COB |
| kCantonese | naap6 |
| kCihaiT | 1372.303 |
| kCowles | 2838 |
| kDefinition | sodium (Na); sharpen wood |
| kEACC | 215D4A |
| kFanqie | 而銳 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8412.7 |
| kGB1 | 3638 |
| kHanYu | 64176.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64176.080:nà,ruì |
| kHKGlyph | 4241 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64176.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1298.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4446 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B675 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-633E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7FDE |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6776 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-625C |
| kJapanese | ドウ ノウ ゼイ ネ |
| kJapaneseKun | KITAERU |
| kJapaneseOn | DOU NOU |
| kJis1 | 6730 |
| kKangXi | 1298.090 |
| kLau | 2255 2256 |
| kMandarin | nà |
| kMatthews | 4611 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1949 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026663 |
| kMorohashi | 40215 |
| kPhonetic | 986 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19915+167.8.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.4 |
| kSBGY | 375.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "钠" U+94A0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 718.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | nà粵naap6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9657 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 256:321 |