U+940B "鐋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鐋

U+940B "鐋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character, primarily used in historical or classical contexts rather than in modern everyday language. It is composed of the radical for metal or gold (金) on the left and the phonetic component "湯" (tāng) on the right, suggesting a connection to metalworking or an object made of metal. In classical Chinese texts, this character has been interpreted as meaning a kind of tool or instrument, such as a plane for smoothing wood or a large bell, though its precise usage varies across different historical sources and dictionaries. Because of its obscurity, it is not commonly found in contemporary writing, but it remains a point of interest for scholars studying ancient Chinese script and historical technology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+940B
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	鐋
HTML Hex Encoding	鐋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x90 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x940B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000940B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u940b

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	F4E7
kCCCII	234732
kCNS1986	2-6A35
kCNS1992	2-6A35
kCangjie	CEAH
kCantonese	tong1
kCihaiT	1394.303
kDaeJaweon	1821.340
kDefinition	gong
kEACC	234732
kFenn	237I
kFennIndex	500.05
kFourCornerCode	8612.7
kGB1	7906
kHanYu	64259.060
kHanyuPinyin	64259.060:tàng,tāng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1821.340
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64259.060
kIRGKangXi	1321.410
kIRG_GSource	G1-6F26
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F4E7
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-027244
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8195
kIRG_KSource	K2-6A4F
kIRG_TSource	T2-6A35
kJapanese	トウ
kKangXi	1321.410
kMandarin	tāng
kMatthews	6103
kMojiJoho	MJ027244
kMorohashi	40879
kPhonetic	1380*
kRSUnicode	167.12
kSimplifiedVariant	"铴" U+94F4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	737.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	tāng粵tong1
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	321:322
kXHC1983	1117.021:tāng