U+9298 "銘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
銘
U+9298 "銘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "inscription" or "engraving," often referring to text carved on metal, stone, or other durable materials to commemorate a person, event, or object. In East Asian cultures, it carries connotations of lasting memory, honor, and dedication, appearing in contexts such as epitaphs, nameplates, and literary phrases like "銘記" (to engrave on one's heart, meaning to remember deeply). The character combines the radical for metal (金) with the phonetic component 名, reflecting its historical association with inscriptions on bronze or metal artifacts, and it remains in modern usage for branding, mottos, and formal dedications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9298 |
| 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 | 銘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 銘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x8A 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9298 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009298 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9298 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BBCA |
| kCCCII | 215D5D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6B53 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6B53 |
| kCangjie | CNIR |
| kCantonese | ming4 |
| kCihaiT | 1379.602 |
| kCowles | 2691 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1807.170 |
| kDefinition | inscribe, engrave; unforgettably |
| kEACC | 215D5D |
| kFanqie | 莫經 |
| kFenn | 270H |
| kFennIndex | 345.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8716.0 |
| kGB1 | 3590 |
| kGSR | 0826d |
| kHangul | 명:0E |
| kHanYu | 64200.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64200.100:míng |
| kHKGlyph | 4256 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1807.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64200.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1305.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-437A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BBCA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C43 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DAFC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-592F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6B53 |
| kJapanese | メイ ミョウ ベイ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIRUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | MEI MYOU |
| kJis0 | 4435 |
| kKangXi | 1305.070 |
| kKorean | MYENG |
| kMandarin | míng |
| kMatthews | 4527 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1816 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026827 |
| kMorohashi | 40385 |
| kNelson | 4852 |
| kPhonetic | 901 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3791+167.8.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.6 |
| kSBGY | 197.28 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "铭" U+94ED CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 724.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | míng粵ming4,ming5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6900 |
| kTang | meng |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 256:171 |