U+94A4 "钤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
钤
U+94A4 "钤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means a seal or stamp, such as an official seal used for authentication in historical and bureaucratic contexts, and it can also refer to a lock or a key. In modern usage, it is often associated with the verb "to stamp" or "to seal", and it appears in compound terms like "钤印" meaning to affix a seal. The character is composed of the radical 钅, indicating metal, and the phonetic component 今, which suggests its pronunciation as "qian" in Mandarin Chinese. It belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is used in both traditional and simplified Chinese writing systems, particularly in formal or literary contexts related to documentation and authority.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+94A4 |
| 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 | 钤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 钤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x92 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x94A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000094A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u94a4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275D4D |
| kCangjie | XCOIN |
| kCantonese | kim4 |
| kDefinition | lock, latch; stamp, seal |
| kEACC | 275D4D |
| kFourCornerCode | 8872.7 |
| kGB0 | 7852 |
| kHanYu | 64178.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64178.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6E54 |
| kTGH | 2013:4243 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6870 |
| kMandarin | qián |
| kPhonetic | 565* |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 296.070:qián |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鈐" U+9210 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0914.010:qián |