U+94F6 "银" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
银
U+94F6 "银" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "silver" in both its elemental and monetary senses. In Standard Mandarin, it is pronounced as "yín" and is commonly used in words such as "银行" (yínháng) meaning "bank," "银币" (yínbì) meaning "silver coin," and "白银" (báiyín) meaning "white silver" or "silver metal." The character appears in historical contexts related to currency, jewelry, and color descriptions, and its simplified form is widely used in modern Chinese writing as part of the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph set. This character is the 15th radical in the Kangxi system under the "金" (gold or metal) radical, reflecting its association with precious metals.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+94F6 |
| 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 | 银 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 银 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x93 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x94F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000094F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u94f6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275D5A |
| kCangjie | OVAV |
| kCantonese | ngan4 |
| kDefinition | silver; cash, money, wealth |
| kEACC | 275D5A |
| kFourCornerCode | 8773 |
| kGB0 | 5088 |
| kHanYu | 64203.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yín(243) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64203.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5278 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9AA7 |
| kTGH | 2013:2309 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6892 |
| kMandarin | yín |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 437.170:yín |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "銀" U+9280 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 1378.150:yín |