U+937C "鍼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+937C "鍼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "needle" or "pin," often referring to a sewing needle or, in a medical context, an acupuncture needle. This character is composed of the radical for metal (金) on the left, indicating its connection to metallic objects, and a phonetic component on the right. It is used in both traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji, where it appears in words related to sewing, surgery, or traditional medicine. In modern usage, it is less common than its simplified counterpart "针" in mainland China, but it remains relevant in classical texts and specialized fields.

General Properties

Code Point U+937C
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 鍼
HTML Hex Encoding 鍼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x8D 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x937C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000937C
C/C++/Java Escape \u937c

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 EED3
kCCCII 234556
kCNS1986 2-6021
kCNS1992 2-6021
kCangjie CIHR
kCantonese kim4
kCihaiT 1388.401
kCowles 125
kDaeJaweon 1815.330
kDefinition needle, pin, tack; prick; inject
kEACC 234556
kFanqie 職深 巨淹 巨鹽
kFenn 344B
kFennIndex 24.03
kFourCornerCode 8315.0
kGSR 0671o
kHangul 침:0N
kHanYu 64229.020
kHanyuPinyin 64229.020:zhēn,qián
kIICore AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1815.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64229.020
kIRGKangXi 1315.270
kIRG_GSource GE-5159
kIRG_HSource HB2-EED3
kIRG_JSource J0-6F2A
kIRG_KPSource KP0-EFB2
kIRG_KSource K0-765D
kIRG_TSource T2-6021
kIRG_VSource V1-6A59
kJapanese シン ケン ゲン カン はり さす
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun HARI SASU
kJapaneseOn SHIN
kJis0 7910
kKangXi 1315.270
kKarlgren 148
kKorean CHIM KAM
kLau 1322
kMandarin zhēn
kMatthews 311
kMeyerWempe 136
kMojiJoho MJ027078
kMorohashi 40667
kNelson 4893
kPhonetic 419
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7013+167.8.9
kRSUnicode 167.9
kSBGY 217.31 228.10 228.32
kSemanticVariant U+7BB4<kMeyerWempe U+91DD<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "𰾗" U+30F97 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 733.11
kTaiwanTelegraph 6944
kTang *jim
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese châm
kXerox 307:262
kXHC1983 1467.091:zhēn