U+947C "鑼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鑼
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
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 |