U+9257 "鉗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鉗
U+9257 "鉗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally composed of the metal radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and it primarily refers to pincers, pliers, or tongs used for gripping or clamping objects. In classical and modern contexts, it can also denote the act of grasping or restraining firmly, and it appears in compound terms such as "鉗子" meaning pliers or forceps. Additionally, the character is used metaphorically in phrases like "鉗制" to describe suppression or coercion. It is classified under the Kangxi radical 167 for metal and is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard for East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9257 |
| 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 | 鉗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鉗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x89 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9257 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009257 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9257 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B958 |
| kCCCII | 215D4E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6740 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6740 |
| kCangjie | CTM |
| kCantonese | kim4 |
| kCihaiT | 1374.403 |
| kCowles | 1971 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1803.160 |
| kDefinition | pincers, pliers, tongs |
| kEACC | 33502A |
| kFanqie | 巨淹 |
| kFenn | 101E |
| kFennIndex | 65.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8417.0 |
| kGB1 | 3915 |
| kGSR | 0606i |
| kHangul | 겸:0N |
| kHanYu | 64182.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qián(17) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64182.070:qián,ān |
| kHKGlyph | 4246 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1803.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64182.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1301.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-472F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B958 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6E69 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CFAA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4C46 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6740 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6A3B |
| kJapanese | カン ケン ゲン ガン くびかせ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUBIKASE |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN KEN |
| kJis0 | 7873 |
| kKangXi | 1301.140 |
| kKarlgren | 298 |
| kKorean | KYEM |
| kLau | 1694 1695 |
| kMandarin | qián |
| kMatthews | 899 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1146 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026753 |
| kMorohashi | 40306 |
| kNelson | 4836 |
| kPhonetic | 650 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6982+99.5.8 C+6982+167.8.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.5 |
| kSBGY | 228.01 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9246<kPhonetic |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "钳" U+94B3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 722.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qián粵kim4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6883 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | kiềm |
| kXerox | 257:055 |