U+94C8 "铈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+94C8 "铈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents the chemical element cerium. It is composed of the radical for metal or gold (钅) on the left, indicating its classification as a metallic element, and the phonetic component “市” on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation (shì in Mandarin). This character is used in modern Chinese scientific and technical terminology, particularly in chemistry, to refer to the rare earth element with atomic number 58. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures consistent digital representation and interchange across different platforms and languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+94C8
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	铈
HTML Hex Encoding	铈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x93 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x94C8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000094C8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u94c8

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	294251
kCangjie	XCYLB
kCantonese	si5
kDefinition	cerium (element 58, Ce)
kEACC	294251
kFourCornerCode	8072
kGB0	7870
kHanYu	64190.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64190.110
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6E66
kTGH	2013:4540
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	7775
kMandarin	shì
kRSUnicode	167'.5
kTGHZ2013	338.060:shì
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"鈰" U+9230 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1047.020:shì