U+949F "钟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+949F "钟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "bell" or "clock," denoting instruments for sounding time or marking events. It is commonly used in compound words such as "分钟" (fēnzhōng) for "minute" and "时钟" (shízhōng) for "timepiece." In traditional Chinese culture, the character also appears in the context of wine vessels and surnames, reflecting its historical evolution from bronze bell forms to modern temporal concepts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+949F
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	钟
HTML Hex Encoding	钟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x92 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x949F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000949F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u949f

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	275E21
kCangjie	OVL
kCantonese	zung1
kDefinition	clock; bell
kEACC	275E21
kFourCornerCode	8570
kGB0	5451
kHanYu	64176.070
kHanyuPinlu	zhōng(410)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64176.070
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-5653
kIRG_HSource	H-9CAF
kTGH	2013:1528
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	6988
kMandarin	zhōng
kRSUnicode	167'.4
kSMSZD2003Index	720.06
kTGHZ2013	480.070,480.080:zhōng
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"鍾" U+937E CJK Unified Ideograph-# "鐘" U+9418 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	1499.040:zhōng