U+94A9 "钩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+94A9 "钩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) traditionally meaning "hook," "catch," or "barb," and is used in both Classical and Modern Standard Chinese. It is composed of the metal radical 钅 (jīn), indicating its association with metal objects, and the phonetic component 勾 (gōu), which also contributes the pronunciation. In writing, it appears in various compound words and names, such as 挂钩 (guàgōu, "to hook onto") and 鱼钩 (yúgōu, "fishhook"), and it is present in the Japanese kanji set (kagi) and Korean hanja (gu) with similar meanings. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the CJK Unified Ideographs block with a hex value of 94A9, representing its standardized digital form for cross-platform text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+94A9
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 钩
HTML Hex Encoding 钩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x92 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x94A9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000094A9
C/C++/Java Escape \u94a9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 9
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 275D56
kCangjie XXXCP
kCantonese ngau1
kDefinition hook, barb; sickle; stroke with
kEACC 275D56
kFourCornerCode 8772
kGB0 2519
kHanYu 64179.070
kHanyuPinlu gōu(42)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64179.070
kIRGKangXi 1328.061
kIRG_GSource G0-3933
kTGH 2013:1534
kKangXi 1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph 6869
kMandarin gōu
kOtherNumeric 9
kPhonetic 584* 673*
kRSUnicode 167'.4
kTGHZ2013 115.080:gōu
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "鈎" U+920E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"鉤" U+9264 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0390.020:gōu