U+9486 "钆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9486 "钆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the chemical element gadolinium, a silvery-white, malleable, and ductile rare-earth metal with the symbol Gd and atomic number 68. In modern Chinese, it is used specifically in scientific and industrial contexts to denote this element, and it is constructed with the metal radical "钅" on the left, indicating its metallic nature, and the phonetic component "乚" on the right, which hints at its pronunciation. This character is part of the broader set of Chinese chemical element names standardized in the mid-20th century to systematically translate elemental nomenclature into Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9486
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	钆
HTML Hex Encoding	钆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x92 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9486
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009486
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9486

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	294162
kCangjie	XCU
kCantonese	gaa1
kDefinition	gadolinium (element 64, Gd)
kEACC	294162
kFourCornerCode	8271
kGB0	7837
kHanYu	64168.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64168.020
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6E45
kTGH	2013:6536
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	1576
kMandarin	gá
kRSUnicode	167'.1
kTGHZ2013	104.070:gá
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"釓" U+91D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0349.110:gá