U+9254 "鉔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9254 "鉔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily represents a type of ancient metal container or vessel, often interpreted as a kind of basin or box, with its specific meaning varying across historical texts and regional usage. It belongs to the metal radical (金) and is composed of phonetic and semantic components, though its modern usage is extremely limited and it is considered an obscure or obsolete character in contemporary Chinese and Japanese writing systems. In Unicode, it is included in the CJK Unified Ideographs block to ensure digital representation of historical or specialized Chinese characters, facilitating scholarly work in areas such as classical literature, paleography, and historical linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point U+9254
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 鉔
HTML Hex Encoding 鉔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x89 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9254
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009254
C/C++/Java Escape \u9254

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 E0C4
kCCCII 234262
kCNS1986 2-484A
kCNS1992 2-484A
kCangjie CSLB
kCantonese zaap3
kCihaiT 1376.305
kDaeJaweon 1803.120
kFourCornerCode 8111.2
kHanYu 64184.010
kHanyuPinyin 64184.010:zā
kIRGDaeJaweon 1803.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64184.010
kIRGKangXi 1301.100
kIRG_GSource GE-505A
kIRG_HSource HB2-E0C4
kIRG_JSource JMJ-026750
kIRG_KPSource KP1-801C
kIRG_KSource K2-683B
kIRG_TSource T2-484A
kJapanese ソウ
kKangXi 1301.100
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ026750
kMorohashi 40302
kPhonetic 37
kRSUnicode 167.5
kSimplifiedVariant "𫓬" U+2B4EC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 HMT