U+9440 "鑀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9440 "鑀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely obsolete Chinese character found in historical texts, where it was used as a phonetic or semantic component in classical or technical writing. Its meaning is not well defined in modern standard Chinese dictionaries, and it does not correspond to a commonly used word or concept in contemporary Mandarin or other Sinospheric languages, though it may have appeared in specialized contexts such as transliterations, historical names, or ancient documents. The character is composed of the metal radical (金) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, suggesting a possible connection to metallic substances or objects, but its exact referent remains obscure and is of interest primarily to paleographers and Unicode specialists.

General Properties

Code Point U+9440
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 鑀
HTML Hex Encoding 鑀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x91 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9440
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009440
C/C++/Java Escape \u9440

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive F669
kCCCII 234832
kCNS1986 2-6C57
kCNS1992 2-6C57
kCangjie CBBE
kCantonese oi3
kDefinition ionium
kEACC 234832
kFourCornerCode 8214.7
kHanYu 64265.050
kHanyuPinyin 64265.050:ài
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64265.050
kIRGKangXi 1324.161
kIRG_GSource GE-523D
kIRG_HSource HB2-F669
kIRG_TSource T2-6C57
kKangXi 1324.161
kMandarin ài
kPhonetic 994
kRSUnicode 167.13
kSimplifiedVariant "𰾭" U+30FAD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 21
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 324:342