U+94B3 "钳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+94B3 "钳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "pliers," "tongs," "pincers," or "to grip with force," and it is commonly used in modern Standard Written Chinese. Its semantic component is the metal radical (钅), indicating its association with metal tools, combined with the phonetic component 甘 (gān), which suggests the character’s pronunciation. This character plays a functional role in contexts such as hardware, mechanics, and metallurgy, and it also appears in metaphorical expressions related to clamping or restraining, such as in the word "钳制" meaning "to clamp down on" or "to control."

General Properties

Code Point	U+94B3
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	钳
HTML Hex Encoding	钳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x92 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x94B3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000094B3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u94b3

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	27502A
kCangjie	XCTM
kCantonese	kim4
kDefinition	pincers, pliers, tongs; to compress
kEACC	27502A
kFourCornerCode	8477
kGB0	3915
kHanYu	64183.010
kHanyuPinlu	qián(17)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64183.010
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-472F
kTGH	2013:1929
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	6883
kMandarin	qián
kRSUnicode	167'.5
kTGHZ2013	296.110:qián
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"鉗" U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0914.030:qián