U+9503 "锃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9503 "锃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "polished" or "shiny," often used to describe the lustrous surface of metal or other materials after being rubbed or buffed. This traditional ideograph is composed of the radical for metal or gold on the left and the phonetic component on the right, reflecting its association with the bright, reflective quality of metallic objects. In modern usage, it appears in words like "锃亮" (zèng liàng), which describes something gleaming or brilliantly polished, and it is occasionally found in literary or descriptive contexts to emphasize a high degree of smoothness and radiance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9503
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	锃
HTML Hex Encoding	锃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x94 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9503
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009503
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9503

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	29442B
kCangjie	XCRMG
kCantonese	caang3
kDefinition	polish
kEACC	29442B
kFourCornerCode	8671
kGB0	7913
kHanYu	64207.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64207.070
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F2D
kTGH	2013:5181
kKangXi	1328.061
kMandarin	zèng
kPhonetic	204*
kRSUnicode	167'.7
kTGHZ2013	461.120:zèng
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"鋥" U+92E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1447.010:zèng