U+9240 "鉀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鉀
U+9240 "鉀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han ideograph that originates from the Chinese writing system and represents the element potassium, a metallic alkali metal commonly used in fertilizers and chemical compounds. In its traditional form, the character is composed of the radical for metal or gold on the left side, indicating its metallic nature, and a phonetic component on the right. It is used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts, often appearing in scientific and chemical terminology. The character is encoded in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard, allowing for consistent digital representation across different platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9240 |
| 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 | 鉀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鉀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x89 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9240 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009240 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9240 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B95B |
| kCCCII | 215D53 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6743 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6743 |
| kCangjie | CWL |
| kCantonese | gaap3 |
| kCihaiT | 1373.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1802.210 |
| kDefinition | potassium (K) |
| kEACC | 215D53 |
| kFanqie | 古盍 古狎 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8615.0 |
| kGB1 | 2856 |
| kHangul | 갑:0N |
| kHanYu | 64185.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64185.090:jiǎ,gé |
| kHKGlyph | 4248 |
| kIBMJapan | FBC5 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1802.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64185.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1300.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3C58 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B95B |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7D2A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CEA6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4B25 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6743 |
| kJapanese | コウ ゴウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,93,10 |
| kJapaneseKun | YOROI KARYUUMU |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU KYOU GOU |
| kJis1 | 6756 |
| kKangXi | 1300.090 |
| kKorean | KAP |
| kMandarin | jiǎ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026726 |
| kMorohashi | 40280 |
| kPhonetic | 551 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+8650+167.8.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.5 |
| kSBGY | 538.02 544.48 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "钾" U+94BE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 721.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǎ粵gaap3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9372 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HKMPT |
| kXerox | 263:272 |