U+9337 "錷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9337 "錷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically specific East Asian character, primarily used in Chinese contexts to represent a metallic element. Its meaning is closely tied to the chemical element gallium, for which it served as a transliteration character in early Chinese scientific terminology, though such usage is now largely obsolete in favor of the modern simplified character "镓". The character itself is composed of the "metal" radical (金) on the left, indicating its association with metals or minerals, and the phonetic component "咼" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation as "gá" in Mandarin. Because of its extremely infrequent modern usage and specialized historical domain, it is often absent from standard digital fonts and primarily appears in specialized dictionaries or archival texts related to the history of Chinese chemistry and scientific translation.

General Properties

Code Point U+9337
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 錷
HTML Hex Encoding 錷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x8C 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9337
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009337
C/C++/Java Escape \u9337

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 255957
kCangjie CJJU
kCantonese aat3
kCihaiT 1387.306
kHanYu 64216.090
kHanyuPinyin 64216.090:gá
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64216.090
kIRGKangXi 1313.051
kIRG_GSource GE-513C
kIRG_JSource J1-6467
kIRG_TSource T4-5445
kJapanese アツ
kJapaneseKun KADORINYUUMU
kJapaneseOn ATSU
kJis1 6871
kKangXi 1313.051
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ027005
kMorohashi 40593
kPhonetic 44
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+22771+167.8.8
kRSUnicode 167.8
kTotalStrokes 16