U+94AE "钮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
钮
U+94AE "钮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "button," "knob," or "handle," and it is also used as a component in mechanical or ornamental terms, such as for a button on clothing or a switch. In modern usage, it appears in words like "按钮" (ànniǔ) meaning "push button" or "button" in a device interface, and "电钮" (diànniǔ) meaning "electric switch" or "button." The character belongs to the metal radical 钅 (jīn) and a phonetic component derived from 丑 (chǒu), reflecting its historical association with metal fasteners. It is a common character in both simplified and traditional Chinese scripts, encoded in the Unicode standard as a CJK Unified Ideograph for digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+94AE |
| 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 | 钮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 钮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x92 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x94AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000094AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u94ae |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275D49 |
| kCangjie | XCNG |
| kCantonese | nau2 |
| kDefinition | button, knob; surname |
| kEACC | 275D49 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8771 |
| kGB0 | 3705 |
| kHanYu | 64181.010 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64181.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4525 |
| kTGH | 2013:1535 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6873 |
| kMandarin | niǔ |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 269.120:niǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鈕" U+9215 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0838.040:niǔ |