U+9268 "鉨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9268 "鉨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obsolete Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of ancient ritual vessel or container, often associated with bronze or metalwork in classical texts. Its exact meaning and usage have been debated among scholars, as it appears infrequently in historical literature and is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing. The character is composed of the metal radical "金" (jīn, meaning gold or metal) on the left, and the phonetic component "爾" (ěr) on the right, suggesting a possible connection to sound or function in its original context. Due to its obscurity, "鉨" is largely absent from contemporary digital fonts and standard vocabulary, making it a point of interest for specialists studying ancient script or rare sinographs.

General Properties

Code Point U+9268
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 鉨
HTML Hex Encoding 鉨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x89 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9268
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009268
C/C++/Java Escape \u9268

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 255878
kCangjie CNF
kCantonese nip6
kDefinition [nǐ] Nihonium (Nh); silk string; [niè] (same as 鑷) tweezers; [xǐ] (same as 鉩) a seal
kHanYu 64188.040
kHanyuPinyin 64188.040:nǐ,niě,xǐ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64188.040
kIRGKangXi 1303.050
kIRG_GSource GE-5062
kIRG_JSource J14-7A64
kIRG_TSource T4-4142
kJapanese デイ
kJIS0213 2,90,68
kJapaneseKun ITOMAONOASHI
kJapaneseOn DEI NAI
kJis1 6774
kKangXi 1303.050
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ026773 MJ026773:E0101 MJ026774:E0102
kMorohashi 40325 40325:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18823+167.8.5
kRSUnicode 167.5
kSimplifiedVariant "鿭" U+9FED CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 13