U+947C "鑼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+947C "鑼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of large, flat gong made of metal, known as a luo, which is traditionally struck with a padded mallet and used in East Asian ceremonial, theatrical, and folk music contexts, such as in Chinese opera and temple rituals. This character belongs to the Kangxi radical for metal (金) and incorporates phonetic and semantic components that denote its metallic construction and percussive function, reflecting its long history in bronze-working and musical instrument classification.

General Properties

Code Point U+947C
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 鑼
HTML Hex Encoding 鑼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x91 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x947C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000947C
C/C++/Java Escape \u947c

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 C672
kCCCII 215E49
kCNS1986 1-7D3F
kCNS1992 1-7D3F
kCangjie CWLG
kCantonese lo4
kCihaiT 1398.601
kCowles 2439
kDaeJaweon 1828.300
kDefinition gong
kEACC 215E49
kFanqie 魯何
kFenn 63E
kFennIndex 316.05
kFourCornerCode 8611.4
kGB1 3464
kGradeLevel 5
kHangul 라:1N
kHanYu 64276.060
kHanyuPinlu luó(28)
kHanyuPinyin 64276.060:luó
kHKGlyph 4325
kIICore ATJHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 1828.300
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64276.060
kIRGKangXi 1327.260
kIRG_GSource G1-4260
kIRG_HSource HB1-C672
kIRG_JSource J0-6F55
kIRG_KPSource KP1-81EE
kIRG_KSource K1-5D79
kIRG_TSource T1-7D3F
kIRG_VSource V0-4660
kJapanese ラ どら
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun DORA
kJapaneseOn RA
kJis0 7953
kKangXi 1327.260
kKorean LA
kLau 1953 1954
kMandarin luó
kMatthews 4107
kMeyerWempe 1642
kMojiJoho MJ027381
kMorohashi 41081
kNelson 4936
kPhonetic 828
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7056+167.8.19
kRSUnicode 167.19
kSBGY 161.04
kSimplifiedVariant "锣" U+9523 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 741.09
kSMSZD2003Readings luó粵lo4
kTaiwanTelegraph 7017
kTotalStrokes 27
kUnihanCore2020 HJMT
kVietnamese la
kXerox 256:241
kXHC1983 0750.051:luó