U+942E "鐮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鐮
U+942E "鐮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents a sickle or scythe, a curved farming tool used for harvesting grain or cutting grass. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, and in modern usage, its simplified form is "镰". Historically and linguistically, "鐮" is composed of a metal radical on the left, indicating its material, and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its pronunciation in various Chinese dialects, often sounding like "lian". In everyday contexts, it appears in words related to agriculture, tools, and occasionally in literary or historical references to rural life.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+942E |
| 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 | 鐮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鐮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x90 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x942E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000942E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u942e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C549 |
| kCCCII | 215E3A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7B35 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7B35 |
| kCangjie | CITC |
| kCantonese | lim4 |
| kCihaiT | 1396.603 |
| kCowles | 2341 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1823.080 |
| kDefinition | sickle |
| kEACC | 215E3A |
| kFanqie | 力鹽 |
| kFenn | 672F |
| kFennIndex | 308.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8013.7 |
| kGB1 | 3313 |
| kHanYu | 64265.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lián(14) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64265.120:lián |
| kHKGlyph | 4312 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1823.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64265.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1323.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-412D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C549 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-6560 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-819C |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6A5E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7B35 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6A64 |
| kJapanese | レン かま |
| kJapaneseKun | KAMA |
| kJapaneseOn | REN |
| kJis1 | 6964 |
| kKangXi | 1323.190 |
| kLau | 1881 |
| kMandarin | lián |
| kMatthews | 4007 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1560 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027282 |
| kMorohashi | 40927 |
| kPhonetic | 804 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19940+167.8.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.13 |
| kSBGY | 225.24 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+938C<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "镰" U+9570 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 739.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lián粵lim4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6991 |
| kTotalStrokes | 21 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kVietnamese | liềm |
| kXerox | 264:271 |