U+93B3 "鎳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+93B3 "鎳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily denotes the chemical element nickel, commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese. In modern Chinese, it is the standard character for nickel in contexts like metallurgy and chemistry, while in Japanese it is used in the same sense within the kanji system. The character is composed of the radical for metal (金) on the left, indicating its association with metallic substances, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is "niè." This character appears in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, which covers a wide range of traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logographic writing systems, and it is encoded for digital text representation across multiple languages and platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+93B3
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	鎳
HTML Hex Encoding	鎳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x8E 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x93B3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000093B3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u93b3

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	C2EC
kCCCII	215E2A
kCNS1986	1-7757
kCNS1992	1-7757
kCangjie	CHUD
kCantonese	nip1
kCihaiT	1391.502
kDefinition	nickel (element 28, Ni)
kEACC	215E2A
kFourCornerCode	8719.4
kGB1	3688
kHanYu	64241.190
kHanyuPinyin	64241.190:niè
kHKGlyph	4298
kIICore	ATHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64241.190
kIRGKangXi	1318.281
kIRG_GSource	G1-4478
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C2EC
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-027141
kIRG_KSource	K2-6A25
kIRG_TSource	T1-7757
kJapanese	ゲツ
kKangXi	1318.281
kLau	2388 2389
kMandarin	niè
kMatthews	4698
kMojiJoho	MJ027141
kMorohashi	40759
kPhonetic	980
kRSUnicode	167.10
kSimplifiedVariant	"镍" U+954D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	735.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	niè粵nip1
kTaiwanTelegraph	9666
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	263:322