U+9477 "鑷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9477 "鑷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character composed of the metal radical "金" and the phonetic component "聶," and it primarily denotes a pair of tweezers, forceps, or pincers used for gripping small objects. Historically and in modern contexts, this ideograph can refer to surgical forceps for extracting foreign objects or to cosmetic tweezers for plucking hair, and it is also associated with the act of pulling out or grasping delicately, such as in the verb form meaning to pluck or tweeze. The character appears in classical Chinese texts and remains in contemporary usage, particularly in medical and technical domains, reflecting its functional role as a tool-related symbol within the CJK script system.

General Properties

Code Point U+9477
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 鑷
HTML Hex Encoding 鑷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x91 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9477
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009477
C/C++/Java Escape \u9477

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 C668
kCCCII 234871
kCNS1986 1-7D35
kCNS1992 1-7D35
kCangjie CSJJ
kCantonese nip6
kCihaiT 1398.503
kCowles 2912
kDaeJaweon 1828.190
kDefinition tweezers, forceps, pincers
kEACC 234871
kFanqie 尼輒
kFenn 633H
kFennIndex 362.06
kFourCornerCode 8114.1
kGB1 3687
kHangul 섭:1N
kHanYu 64274.100
kHanyuPinyin 64274.100:niè
kIICore AT
kIRGDaeJaweon 1828.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64274.100
kIRGKangXi 1327.150
kIRG_GSource G1-4477
kIRG_HSource HB1-C668
kIRG_JSource J0-6F52
kIRG_KPSource KP1-81E8
kIRG_KSource K1-645C
kIRG_TSource T1-7D35
kJapanese ジョウ ニョウ けぬき
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun KENUKI KUGINUKI
kJapaneseOn JOU
kJis0 7950
kKangXi 1327.150
kKorean SEP
kMandarin niè
kMatthews 4708
kMeyerWempe 2094
kMojiJoho MJ027374 MJ027374:E0102 MJ027375:E0103 MJ027376:E0104
kMorohashi 41069:E0103
kPhonetic 979
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7053+167.8.18 V+13620+167.8.18
kRSUnicode 167.18
kSBGY 539.39
kSimplifiedVariant "镊" U+954A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 741.06
kSMSZD2003Readings niè粵nip6
kTaiwanTelegraph 7015
kTotalStrokes 26
kUnihanCore2020 HJMT
kXerox 272:371
kXHC1983 0834.081:niè