U+9454 "鑔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9454 "鑔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of small cymbal used in Chinese percussion ensembles, particularly in Beijing opera and other regional folk music, where it is played in pairs to produce a sharp, clashing sound. This character is composed of the metal radical 金 (jīn, meaning gold or metal) on the left and the phonetic component 察 (chá, meaning to examine or observe) on the right, reflecting its material and pronunciation. In modern simplified Chinese, the character is often written as 镲 (U+9572). Beyond its musical meaning, "鑔" does not have commonly used alternate definitions in everyday language, making it a specialized term largely confined to the context of traditional instruments and cultural performances.

General Properties

Code Point U+9454
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 鑔
HTML Hex Encoding 鑔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x91 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9454
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009454
C/C++/Java Escape \u9454

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

kCCCII 23483F
kCNS1986 E-5F6B
kCNS1992 3-5F6B
kCangjie CJBF
kCantonese caa2
kDefinition cymbals
kGB1 7979
kHanYu 64269.010
kHanyuPinyin 64269.010:chǎ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64269.010
kIRGKangXi 1325.181
kIRG_GSource G1-6F6F
kIRG_HSource H-9A51
kIRG_KSource K2-6A74
kIRG_TSource T3-5F6B
kKangXi 1325.181
kMandarin chǎ
kPhonetic 45
kRSUnicode 167.14
kSimplifiedVariant "镲" U+9572 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 740.04
kSMSZD2003Readings chǎ粵caa2
kTotalStrokes 22
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXerox 321:334