U+94DC "铜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
铜
U+94DC "铜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram that represents the concept of copper or bronze in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it is used in various compound words related to these metals. In Mandarin Chinese, it is read as "tóng" and appears in terms such as "铜钱" meaning copper coin and "青铜" meaning bronze. The character itself is composed of the radical "钅" which signifies metal, combined with the phonetic component "同" suggesting pronunciation, reflecting its semantic category as a type of metal. This character forms part of the core vocabulary for discussing metallurgy, currency, and artistic works across East Asian cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+94DC |
| 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 | 铜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 铜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x93 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x94DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000094DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u94dc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275D5C |
| kCangjie | OVBMR |
| kCantonese | tung4 |
| kDefinition | copper, brass, bronze |
| kEACC | 275D5C |
| kFourCornerCode | 8772 |
| kGB0 | 4513 |
| kHanYu | 64196.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tóng(129) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64196.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4D2D |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9AAE |
| kTGH | 2013:2306 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6894 |
| kMandarin | tóng |
| kPhonetic | 1407* |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 370.030:tóng |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "銅" U+9285 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 1154.040:tóng |