U+94CE "铎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+94CE "铎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally refers to a large ancient bell or a metal clapper used to announce orders or proclamations, often made of brass or iron. In modern usage, it can also denote a type of percussion instrument or symbolically represent a guiding voice or call to attention, reflecting its historical role in communication and ceremony within East Asian cultures. This character is composed of the radical for metal, indicating its metallic nature, and a phonetic component that influences its pronunciation, which is "duo" in Mandarin Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+94CE
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	铎
HTML Hex Encoding	铎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x93 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x94CE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000094CE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u94ce

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	275E3F
kCangjie	CEQ
kCantonese	dok6
kDefinition	bell; surname
kEACC	275E3F
kFourCornerCode	8775
kGB0	7876
kHanYu	64192.090
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64192.090
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6E6C
kTGH	2013:4547
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	6995
kMandarin	duó
kPhonetic	1560*
kRSUnicode	167'.5
kSMSZD2003Index	723.13
kTGHZ2013	084.150:duó
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"鐸" U+9438 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0280.110:duó