U+9387 "鎇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9387 "鎇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is used primarily in traditional writing and represents the element americium, a synthetic radioactive metal. It is composed of the radical for metal or gold (釒) on the left and the phonetic component "美" (měi, meaning beautiful) on the right, which also contributes the pronunciation "měi" in Mandarin Chinese. This character is not commonly encountered in everyday modern text, but it appears in specialized scientific or technical contexts, such as chemistry and physics, where it denotes the transuranic element with atomic number 95.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9387
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	鎇
HTML Hex Encoding	鎇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x8E 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9387
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009387
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9387

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	23454E
kCangjie	CAHU
kCantonese	mei4
kDefinition	americium (element 95, Am)
kGB1	7949
kHanYu	64236.160
kHanyuPinyin	64236.160:méi
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64236.160
kIRGKangXi	1316.111
kIRG_GSource	G1-6F51
kIRG_HSource	H-946C
kIRG_TSource	TF-5D39
kIRG_VSource	V3-354A
kKangXi	1316.111
kMandarin	méi
kPhonetic	889
kRSUnicode	167.9
kSimplifiedVariant	"镅" U+9545 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	733.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	méi粵mei4
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	321:313