U+93AE "鎮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鎮
U+93AE "鎮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to press down," "to calm," "to guard," or "town," and it is used in various East Asian languages including Japanese and Korean. This character often appears in compound words related to suppression or stabilization, such as in "鎮静" (calming) in Japanese or "鎮壓" (suppression) in Chinese, and it also denotes a fortified settlement or administrative town in historical contexts. Its structure combines the radical for metal (金) with the phonetic component "真," reflecting its semantic link to something weighty or fixed, and it holds cultural significance in place names, personal names, and traditional expressions of peacekeeping or authority.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+93AE |
| 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 | 鎮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鎮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x8E 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x93AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000093AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u93ae |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2ED |
| kCCCII | 215E27 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7758 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7758 |
| kCangjie | CJBC |
| kCantonese | zan3 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1818.070 |
| kDefinition | town, market place; suppress |
| kEACC | 215E27 |
| kFanqie | 陟刃 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8418.1 |
| kGB1 | 5382 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0375f |
| kHanYu | 64238.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhèn(216) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64238.010:zhèn,zhēn,tián |
| kHKGlyph | 4295 |
| kIICore | ATJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1818.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64238.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1318.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5572 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2ED |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4443 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-812C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7758 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6A5D |
| kJapanese | チン テン しずめる しずまる おさえ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIZUMERU OSAE SHIZUMARU |
| kJapaneseOn | CHIN TEN |
| kJis0 | 3635 |
| kKangXi | 1318.170 |
| kKorean | CIN |
| kLau | 1338 |
| kMandarin | zhèn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027133 |
| kMorohashi | 40745 |
| kNelson | 4903 |
| kPhonetic | 63 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3039+167.8.10 V+13370+167.8.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.10 |
| kSBGY | 104.01 393.46 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "镇" U+9547 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 734.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhèn粵zan3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6966 |
| kTang | djìn |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kVietnamese | trấn |
| kZVariant | U+93AD |