U+93A4 "鎤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+93A4 "鎤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (CJK, or Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) that is primarily used in classical and historical texts, particularly in Japanese contexts where it is considered a hyogaiji or extended character. It is generally associated with the meaning of a "bell" or "gong," specifically a large metal percussion instrument, and its pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese is huǎng while in Japanese it can be read as kō or ō. This character is classified under the Kangxi radical 167 for metal or gold, reflecting its composition of the "metal" radical on the left and the phonetic component "黄" (yellow) on the right. Due to its rarity in modern usage, it is not included in common character sets like JIS X 0208, but it may appear in specialized or historical references, such as ancient poetry or records of ritual instruments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+93A4
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	鎤
HTML Hex Encoding	鎤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x8E 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x93A4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000093A4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u93a4

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	F167
kCCCII	23463D
kCNS1986	2-6434
kCNS1992	2-6434
kCangjie	CAFU
kCantonese	fong2
kDaeJaweon	1817.240
kDefinition	sound of a bell; small bell
kEACC	23463D
kFourCornerCode	8611.1
kGB5	8585
kHangul	황:1N
kHanYu	64240.100
kHanyuPinyin	64240.100:huàng
kIBMJapan	FBE1
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	1817.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64240.100
kIRGKangXi	1318.010
kIRG_GSource	G5-7575
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F167
kIRG_JSource	J1-6533
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8138
kIRG_KSource	K1-744A
kIRG_TSource	T2-6434
kJapanese	コウ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	KANENONE
kJapaneseOn	KOU
kJis1	6919
kKangXi	1318.010
kKorean	HWANG
kMandarin	huàng
kMojiJoho	MJ027121
kMorohashi	40731
kPhonetic	376*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8678+167.8.10
kRSUnicode	167.10
kTaiwanTelegraph	9368
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	314:242