U+9424 "鐤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鐤
U+9424 "鐤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used in East Asian writing systems, particularly in Classical Chinese and Japanese. It primarily refers to a large, ancient bronze cooking vessel or cauldron, often associated with ritualistic or ceremonial purposes in ancient China, symbolizing power and authority. The character is composed of the metal radical 金 on the left and the phonetic component 鼎 on the right, reflecting its material and meaning related to the iconic ding vessel. In modern usage, it is rarely encountered in everyday text but may appear in historical, archaeological, or literary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9424 |
| 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 | 鐤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鐤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x90 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9424 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009424 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9424 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-6668 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-6668 |
| kCangjie | CBUL |
| kCantonese | ding2 |
| kDefinition | huge tripod of bronze with two ears; sacrificial vessel |
| kEACC | 23482D |
| kHanYu | 64256.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64256.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1324.161 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-5239 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-91BC |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-6668 |
| kKangXi | 1324.161 |
| kMandarin | dǐng |
| kPhonetic | 1341* |
| kRSUnicode | 167.12 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𰾸" U+30FB8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |