U+94E8 "铨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
铨
U+94E8 "铨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to select" or "to weigh" and is often used in the context of evaluating or choosing candidates, as in the term "铨选" which refers to the official selection of personnel for government positions in imperial China. Composed of the radical for metal (金) on the left and the phonetic component "全" (quán) on the right, it embodies the concept of measuring or appraising worth, akin to weighing metal. In modern usage, it can also appear in compound words related to qualifications or standards, and its simplified form is commonly used in contemporary Chinese writing, particularly in formal or bureaucratic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+94E8 |
| 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 | 铨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 铨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x93 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x94E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000094E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u94e8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275D60 |
| kCangjie | XCOMG |
| kCantonese | cyun4 |
| kDefinition | weigh, measure; select officials |
| kEACC | 275D60 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8871 |
| kGB0 | 7893 |
| kHanYu | 64199.090 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64199.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6E7D |
| kTGH | 2013:4876 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6898 |
| kMandarin | quán |
| kPhonetic | 282* |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 309.170:quán |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "銓" U+9293 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0949.070:quán |