U+9296 "銖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

銖

U+9296 "銖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents a unit of weight and currency in East Asian history, specifically the ancient Chinese measure known as a "zhu," which equals approximately 0.65 grams and was used as a fractional unit of the silver tael. This ideograph combines the radical for "metal" or "gold" on the left with the phonetic component "朱" on the right, reflecting its association with precious metal coinage. It is historically significant for its role in the currency systems of imperial China, where coins were often denominated in zhu, such as the Wu Zhu coinage that circulated for centuries. The character also appears in Japanese and Korean contexts, where it denotes the same weight unit and is used in certain traditional measurements and historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9296
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	銖
HTML Hex Encoding	銖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x8A 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9296
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009296
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9296

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	BBCB
kCCCII	215D5E
kCNS1986	1-6B54
kCNS1992	1-6B54
kCangjie	CHJD
kCantonese	zyu1
kCihaiT	1379.502
kCowles	327
kDaeJaweon	1807.150
kDefinition	unit of weight, one twenty-fourth of a Chinese ounce (liang)
kEACC	215D5E
kFanqie	市朱
kFourCornerCode	8519.0
kGB1	7889
kGSR	0128t
kHangul	수:0N
kHanYu	64197.060
kHanyuPinyin	64197.060:zhū
kHKGlyph	4257
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1807.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64197.060
kIRGKangXi	1305.050
kIRG_GSource	G1-6E79
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BBCB
kIRG_JSource	J0-6E73
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E4AE
kIRG_KSource	K0-6247
kIRG_TSource	T1-6B54
kJapanese	シュジュ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	NIBUI
kJapaneseOn	SHU JU
kJis0	7883
kKangXi	1305.050
kKorean	SWU
kMandarin	zhū
kMatthews	1354
kMeyerWempe	349h
kMojiJoho	MJ026825
kMorohashi	40383
kPhonetic	260
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6992+167.8.6
kRSUnicode	167.6
kSBGY	076.03
kSimplifiedVariant	"铢" U+94E2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	724.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhū粵zyu1
kTaiwanTelegraph	6899
kTang	zhio
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	273:320