U+9465 "鑥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9465 "鑥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character (hanzi) that traditionally refers to a kind of precious metal or a type of decorative gilt, often associated with meanings related to "copper" or "gilding" in classical contexts. It is composed of the radical "金" (gold or metal) on the left, indicating its association with metals, and the phonetic component "魯" (lu) on the right, which provides its approximate pronunciation. This character does not appear in modern standard Mandarin usage and is primarily encountered in historical texts, ancient bronze inscriptions, or specialized dictionaries of archaic Chinese characters. Its existence highlights the depth and complexity of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph repertoire, which encompasses thousands of rare and obsolete symbols used for scholarly and linguistic documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+9465
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 鑥
HTML Hex Encoding 鑥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x91 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9465
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009465
C/C++/Java Escape \u9465

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 23485C
kCNS1986 E-6057
kCNS1992 3-6057
kCangjie CNWA
kCantonese lou5
kDefinition lutetium (element 71, Lu)
kEACC 23485C
kGB1 7969
kHanYu 64270.110
kHanyuPinyin 64270.110:lǔ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64270.110
kIRGKangXi 1326.121
kIRG_GSource G1-6F65
kIRG_HSource H-9C4E
kIRG_JSource JMJ-027349
kIRG_TSource T3-6057
kIRG_VSource V2-862B
kJapanese ロ ル
kKangXi 1326.121
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ027349
kMorohashi 49833
kPhonetic 823
kRSUnicode 167.15
kSimplifiedVariant "镥" U+9565 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 740.10
kSMSZD2003Readings lǔ粵lou5
kTotalStrokes 23
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXerox 321:330