U+9426 "鐦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鐦
U+9426 "鐦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in the context of chemistry, where it represents the element californium, a synthetic radioactive metal with the atomic number 98, and is read as "kāi" in Mandarin. This character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, though its usage is rare and highly specialized outside of scientific or technical references. Its composition follows the standard structure of a metal radical (金, meaning "gold" or "metal") combined with a phonetic component, indicating both its semantic domain and pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9426 |
| 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 | 鐦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鐦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x90 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9426 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009426 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9426 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 234750 |
| kCangjie | CANT |
| kCantonese | hoi1 |
| kDefinition | californium (element 98, Cf) |
| kEACC | 234750 |
| kGB1 | 7920 |
| kHanYu | 64259.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64259.110:kāi |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64259.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1323.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6F34 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-90B4 |
| kKangXi | 1323.121 |
| kMandarin | kāi |
| kPhonetic | 488 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.12 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "锎" U+950E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 738.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kāi粵hoi1 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXerox | 321:320 |