U+9242 "鉂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9242 "鉂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character used primarily in archaic or specialized contexts, often associated with meanings related to metals or tools, given its "金" (gold/metal) radical on the left. It is not commonly found in modern standard Chinese, Japanese, or Korean usage, and its exact definition remains obscure in many contemporary dictionaries, sometimes glossed as a type of ornamental or ceremonial metal implement. This character exemplifies the vast set of rarely used CJK characters that survive in historical texts, name records, or technical terminology, representing a legacy of East Asian script development rather than a living part of everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+9242
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 鉂
HTML Hex Encoding 鉂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x89 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9242
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009242
C/C++/Java Escape \u9242

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

kCCCII 255872
kCangjie CLK
kCantonese si2
kDaeJaweon 1802.240
kGB3 8579
kHanYu 64186.100
kHanyuPinyin 64186.100:shǐ
kIRGDaeJaweon 1802.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64186.100
kIRGKangXi 1300.120
kIRG_GSource G3-756F
kIRG_JSource J14-7A59
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8012
kIRG_TSource T4-4141
kJapanese
kJIS0213 2,90,57
kJapaneseKun KANAWA SASU
kJapaneseOn SHI
kJis1 6757
kKangXi 1300.120
kMandarin shǐ
kMojiJoho MJ026728 MJ026728:E0101 MJ026729:E0102
kMorohashi 40283 40283:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18818+167.8.5
kRSUnicode 167.5
kTotalStrokes 13