U+94C4 "铄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+94C4 "铄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to melt or to smelt, and is also used metaphorically to signify to brighten or to shine, often in the context of metal or fire. It is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, specifically classified under the Kangxi radical for gold or metal. In modern usage, it frequently appears in classical literary expressions and compound words, such as in the idiom "众口铄金" meaning "public opinion can melt metal," which conveys the power of collective belief or rumor to erode truth.

General Properties

Code Point	U+94C4
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	铄
HTML Hex Encoding	铄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x93 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x94C4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000094C4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u94c4

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	275E45
kCangjie	CHVD
kCantonese	soek3
kDefinition	melt, smelt; shine
kEACC	275E45
kFourCornerCode	8279
kGB0	7869
kHanYu	64188.050
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64188.050
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6E65
kTGH	2013:4538
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	7007
kMandarin	shuò
kPhonetic	972*
kRSUnicode	167'.5
kSMSZD2003Index	723.12
kTGHZ2013	345.100:shuò
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"鑠" U+9460 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1084.070:shuò