U+94C1 "铁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
铁
U+94C1 "铁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the element iron, both in its literal sense as a metal and in various figurative meanings such as strength, firmness, or unyielding nature. It is widely used in modern and classical Chinese writing, appearing in words for hardware, railway (tielu), and metaphors like "iron rice bowl" to denote stable employment. The character combines the radical for gold or metal (钅) on the left, indicating its material association, with a phonetic component (失) on the right that provides a clue to its pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+94C1 |
| 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 | 铁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 铁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x93 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x94C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000094C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u94c1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275E3D |
| kCangjie | OVHQO |
| kCantonese | tit3 |
| kDefinition | iron; strong, solid, firm |
| kEACC | 275E3D |
| kFourCornerCode | 8578 |
| kGB0 | 4490 |
| kHanYu | 64187.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tiě(734) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64187.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4C7A |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9ABC |
| kTGH | 2013:1932 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6993 |
| kMandarin | tiě |
| kPhonetic | 1135* |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.5 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 367.090:tiě |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鐵" U+9435 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 1143.020:tiě |