U+9418 "鐘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鐘
U+9418 "鐘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a bell, specifically a large, hollow, metal bell traditionally used for timekeeping, signaling, or ceremonial purposes in East Asian cultures. Its radical is 金 (gold or metal) and its phonetic component is 童, reflecting both its material composition and sound associations. In modern usage, this character appears in words related to bells, clocks, and chimes, such as 時鐘 (shízhōng, clock) or 鐘聲 (zhōngshēng, the sound of a bell). Beyond practical function, it carries cultural and symbolic weight, often evoking notions of mindfulness, ritual, or the passage of time in classical poetry and philosophical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9418 |
| 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 | 鐘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鐘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x90 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9418 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009418 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9418 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4C1 |
| kCCCII | 215E38 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A4C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A4C |
| kCangjie | CYTG |
| kCantonese | zung1 |
| kCihaiT | 1393.603 |
| kCowles | 385 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1822.180 |
| kDefinition | clock; bell |
| kEACC | 2D5E21 |
| kFanqie | 職容 |
| kFenn | 829A |
| kFennIndex | 109.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8011.4 |
| kGB1 | 5451 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 1188x |
| kHangul | 종:0E |
| kHanYu | 64258.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhōng(410) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64258.060:zhōng |
| kHKGlyph | 4309 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1822.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64258.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1323.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5653 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4C1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E62 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E9DA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7124 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A4C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6A62 |
| kJapanese | ショウ シュ かね |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KANE |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 3066 |
| kKangXi | 1323.020 |
| kKorean | CONG |
| kLau | 1627 |
| kMandarin | zhōng |
| kMatthews | 1503 |
| kMeyerWempe | 417 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027262 MJ027262:E0101 MJ027263:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 40902 40902:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4917 |
| kPhonetic | 1406 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2506+167.8.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.12 |
| kSBGY | 034.02 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "钟" U+949F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 738.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhōng粵zung1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6988 |
| kTang | *jiong |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | chuông |
| kXerox | 244:253 |
| kXHC1983 | 1499.031:zhōng |