U+9259 "鉙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9259 "鉙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character found in the traditional Kangxi radical system, specifically under radical 167, which is the "metal" or "gold" radical (金). Its exact meaning and usage are poorly documented in modern standards, as it does not appear in common Chinese dictionaries or texts, suggesting it is a historical variant or a character used in ancient inscriptions or specialized contexts. The character is composed of the metal radical on the left and the phonetic component "尌" on the right, but no standard definition or pronunciation (such as a modern Mandarin reading) is widely agreed upon, making it a largely enigmatic glyph within the Unicode CJK block.

General Properties

Code Point U+9259
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 鉙
HTML Hex Encoding 鉙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x89 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9259
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009259
C/C++/Java Escape \u9259

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 255873
kCNS1986 E-452D
kCNS1992 3-452D
kCangjie CRC
kCantonese zaai2
kHanYu 64186.080
kHanyuPinyin 64186.080:zhǎi
kIBMJapan FBC8
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64186.080
kIRGKangXi 1301.160
kIRG_GSource GE-505D
kIRG_JSource J14-7A5F
kIRG_TSource T3-452D
kJapanese タイ
kJIS0213 2,90,63
kJapaneseKun KOGANE
kJapaneseOn TAI
kJis1 6767
kKangXi 1301.160
kMandarin zhǎi
kMojiJoho MJ026755
kMorohashi 40308
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8653+167.8.5
kRSUnicode 167.5
kSimplifiedVariant "𰽨" U+30F68 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 13