U+9274 "鉴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鉴
U+9274 "鉴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to examine", "to inspect", or "to reflect upon", and it also carries the meanings of "mirror" or "example" as a noun. It is a simplified form of the traditional character "鑑" or "鑒", and is commonly used in modern Chinese in words like "鉴定" meaning appraisal or identification, and "借鉴" meaning to learn from or use as a reference. Historically, it originated from the image of a person looking into a basin of water as a mirror, symbolizing reflection and scrutiny.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9274 |
| 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 | 鉴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鉴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x89 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9274 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009274 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9274 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 395E42 |
| kCangjie | LIC |
| kCantonese | gaam3 |
| kDefinition | mirror, looking glass; reflect |
| kEACC | 395E42 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2810 |
| kGB0 | 2888 |
| kHanYu | 64185.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiàn(33) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64185.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1303.101 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C78 |
| kIRG_TSource | TF-4572 |
| kTGH | 2013:2894 |
| kKangXi | 1303.101 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7003 |
| kMandarin | jiàn |
| kPhonetic | 544 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 723.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 166.070:jiàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鑒" U+9452 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0555.070:jiàn |