U+9399 "鎙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9399 "鎙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that primarily appears in classical or historical texts, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese. The character's composition combines the "metal" radical (金) with the phonetic component "朔," and its meaning is traditionally associated with a type of large spear, lance, or halberd used in ancient Chinese warfare. This character reflects the rich vocabulary of ancient weaponry and is occasionally encountered in literary or historical contexts, such as in descriptions of military equipment in classic novels like "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms." Due to its rarity, it is often absent from modern dictionaries and requires specialized fonts or input methods for display.

General Properties

Code Point U+9399
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 鎙
HTML Hex Encoding 鎙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x8E 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9399
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009399
C/C++/Java Escape \u9399

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 F161
kCCCII 255A34
kCNS1986 2-642D
kCNS1992 2-642D
kCangjie CTUB
kCantonese sok3
kDaeJaweon 1817.070
kDefinition large spear; chess board
kFennIndex 470.08 472.08
kFourCornerCode 8712.0
kHanYu 64244.100
kHanyuPinyin 64244.100:shuò
kIRGDaeJaweon 1817.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64244.100
kIRGKangXi 1317.100
kIRG_GSource GE-5163
kIRG_HSource HB2-F161
kIRG_JSource JMJ-027107
kIRG_KPSource KP1-811E
kIRG_TSource T2-642D
kJapanese サク
kKangXi 1317.100
kMandarin shuò
kMeyerWempe 2758a
kMojiJoho MJ027107
kMorohashi 40713
kPhonetic 1231*
kRSUnicode 167.10
kSemanticVariant U+69CA<kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "𫔈" U+2B508 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 HMT