U+942B "鐫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鐫
U+942B "鐫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means to engrave, carve, or chisel, particularly into stone or metal. It is commonly used in classical and modern East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in contexts like inscribing text on monuments, seals, or artworks. The character is composed of the metal radical "金" (gold or metal) on the left, indicating its association with hard materials, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation. In Unicode, it belongs to the block of unified CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs, enabling consistent digital representation across different writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+942B |
| 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 | 鐫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鐫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x90 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x942B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000942B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u942b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C54F |
| kCCCII | 234835 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7B3B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7B3B |
| kCangjie | COGS |
| kCantonese | zyun1 |
| kCihaiT | 1394.403 |
| kCowles | 3712 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1823.060 |
| kDefinition | engraving tool; carve, engrave |
| kEACC | 234835 |
| kFanqie | 子泉 |
| kFenn | 52G |
| kFennIndex | 59.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8012.7 |
| kGSR | 0235c |
| kHangul | 전:0N |
| kHanYu | 64256.170 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64256.170:juān |
| kIICore | ATKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1823.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64256.170 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1323.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-523A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C54F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6F43 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E7FC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6F32 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7B3B |
| kJapanese | セン える のみ ほる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | NOMI ERU KIRU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN |
| kJis0 | 7935 |
| kKangXi | 1323.160 |
| kKorean | CEN |
| kLau | 2931 |
| kMandarin | juān |
| kMatthews | 863 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2862 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027279 |
| kMorohashi | 40924 |
| kNelson | 4914 |
| kPhonetic | 312 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7038+167.8.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.13 |
| kSBGY | 140.28 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+92D1<kMatthews U+9474<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "镌" U+954C CJK Unified Ideograph-# "𰾹" U+30FB9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 739.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | juān粵zyun1,zeon3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6990 |
| kTang | tziuɛn |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 271:264 |
| kXHC1983 | 0616.111:juān |