U+933E "錾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+933E "錾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to engrave, carve, or chisel, typically referring to the act of inscribing patterns or text onto metal or stone surfaces. This ideograph is composed of a metal radical on the left, indicating its association with metallic objects or tools, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation. Commonly used in classical and modern Chinese contexts, the character appears in words related to metalworking, engraving crafts, and sometimes in artistic or literary descriptions of detailed carving work. As a part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, it represents a shared cultural and linguistic heritage across East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+933E
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 錾
HTML Hex Encoding 錾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x8C 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x933E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000933E
C/C++/Java Escape \u933e

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 294666
kCangjie KLC
kCantonese zaam6
kDefinition engraving tool, chisel
kEACC 294666
kFourCornerCode 4210
kGB0 8641
kHanYu 64217.090
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64217.090
kIRGKangXi 1313.051
kIRG_GSource G0-7649
kTGH 2013:6079
kKangXi 1313.051
kMainlandTelegraph 6983
kMandarin zàn
kPhonetic 21*
kRSUnicode 167.8
kSMSZD2003Index 731.07
kTGHZ2013 458.030:zàn
kTotalStrokes 16
kTraditionalVariant "鏨" U+93E8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1439.120:zàn