U+9494 "钔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
钔
U+9494 "钔" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese character used primarily in modern and historical written Chinese, where it represents the element mendelevium, a synthetic radioactive metal, functioning as a simplified character for its traditional counterpart. This character belongs to the radical for gold or metal and is composed of a left-side metal radical combined with a phonetic component indicating its pronunciation as "men" in Mandarin. It is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, encoding a single logographic symbol that carries specific semantic and phonetic value in East Asian languages, particularly in scientific and chemical contexts for naming elements on the periodic table.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9494 |
| 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 | 钔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 钔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x92 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9494 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009494 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9494 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 294475 |
| kCangjie | CLS |
| kCantonese | mun4 |
| kDefinition | mendelevium (Md) |
| kEACC | 294475 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8772 |
| kGB0 | 7845 |
| kHanYu | 64173.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64173.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6E4D |
| kTGH | 2013:6690 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5330 |
| kMandarin | mén |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 718.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 247.090:mén |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鍆" U+9346 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0776.020:mén |