U+93A0 "鎠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+93A0 "鎠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character, primarily used in classical or historical texts, which represents a type of metal or tool, often associated with iron or steel, though its precise meaning and usage are obscure and not commonly encountered in modern Mandarin vocabulary. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, encoded in Unicode to preserve and represent historical and regional East Asian scripts, and it is formed from the radical for metal, 金, combined with a phonetic component to indicate its sound. While it may appear in specialized dictionaries or ancient literary works, "鎠" lacks a well-defined, contemporary definition, making it a subject of interest for linguists and scholars studying obscure glyphs rather than for everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+93A0
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 鎠
HTML Hex Encoding 鎠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x8E 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x93A0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000093A0
C/C++/Java Escape \u93a0

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 255A49
kCNS1986 E-593E
kCNS1992 3-593E
kCangjie CWLM
kCantonese gong3
kDaeJaweon 1817.200
kHangul 강:N
kHanYu 64241.030
kIRGDaeJaweon 1817.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64241.030
kIRGKangXi 1317.240
kIRG_GSource GE-5167
kIRG_HSource H-93FB
kIRG_JSource JMJ-027115
kIRG_TSource T3-593E
kJapanese コウ
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 1317.240
kMandarin gāng
kMojiJoho MJ027115
kMorohashi 40727
kPhonetic 656*
kRSUnicode 167.10
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 H