U+940C "鐌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鐌
U+940C "鐌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character with limited modern usage, belonging to the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block. According to historical dictionaries like the Kangxi Zidian, it is associated with the meaning of "elephant" or an archaic variant of the character for elephant, often found in classical texts or bronze inscriptions. Its radical is 金 (metal/gold), suggesting it may have described a metal object or decorative piece related to elephants, though precise definitions are obscure due to its rarity. Overall, this character represents a specialized, historical glyph that is seldom encountered outside of academic study or ancient document transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+940C |
| 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 | 鐌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鐌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x90 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x940C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000940C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u940c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F541 |
| kCCCII | 23476D |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6A4F |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6A4F |
| kCangjie | CNAO |
| kCantonese | zoeng6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1821.350 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8713.2 |
| kGB3 | 8692 |
| kHanYu | 64257.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64257.110:xiàng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1821.350 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64257.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1322.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-767C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F541 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-027245 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8185 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6A50 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6A4F |
| kJapanese | ショウ ゾウ |
| kKangXi | 1322.010 |
| kMandarin | xiàng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027245 |
| kMorohashi | 40880 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.12 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |