U+921E "鈞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鈞
U+921E "鈞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used across multiple East Asian languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. Historically, it denotes a unit of weight equal to thirty catties (approximately 15 kilograms) and carries the extended meanings of "equal," "balanced," or "even," often appearing in philosophical contexts related to fairness or equilibrium. In modern usage, it is found in personal names, place names, and compound words such as "鈞鑒" (a respectful term meaning "for your esteemed perusal" in correspondence) and "千鈞一髮" (an idiom describing a perilously critical moment).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+921E |
| 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 | 鈞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鈞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x88 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x921E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000921E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u921e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B676 |
| kCCCII | 215D4C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-625D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-625D |
| kCangjie | CPIM |
| kCantonese | gwan1 |
| kCihaiT | 1372.603 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1801.230 |
| kDefinition | unit of measure equivalent to thirty catties |
| kEACC | 215D4C |
| kFanqie | 居勻 |
| kFenn | 232F |
| kFennIndex | 123.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8712.0 |
| kGB1 | 3091 |
| kGSR | 0391e |
| kHangul | 균:0N |
| kHanYu | 64178.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64178.110:jūn |
| kHKGlyph | 4242 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1801.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64178.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1299.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3E7B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B676 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6E62 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1E3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5037 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-625D |
| kJapanese | キン ひとしい ろくろ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HITOSHII |
| kJapaneseOn | KIN |
| kJis0 | 7866 |
| kKangXi | 1299.100 |
| kKarlgren | 292 |
| kKorean | KYUN |
| kMandarin | jūn |
| kMatthews | 1725 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1388b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026690 |
| kMorohashi | 40238 |
| kNelson | 4823 |
| kPhonetic | 1442 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6975+167.8.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.4 |
| kSBGY | 108.34 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9281<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "钧" U+94A7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 719.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jūn粵gwan1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6874 |
| kTang | guin |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 263:312 |