U+951A "锚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
锚
U+951A "锚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "anchor," representing the heavy metal device used to moor ships to the seabed. This ideograph is composed of the radical for metal, reflecting its material, and a phonetic component that suggests its pronunciation. In modern usage, "锚" appears not only in nautical contexts but also metaphorically, such as in computing as the term for a hyperlink anchor in HTML. As a CJK unified ideograph, it is part of the standard set shared among Chinese, Japanese, and Korean written languages, ensuring consistent representation across these writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+951A |
| 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 | 锚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 锚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x94 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x951A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000951A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u951a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275D7D |
| kCangjie | XCTW |
| kCantonese | naau4 |
| kDefinition | anchor |
| kEACC | 275D7D |
| kFourCornerCode | 8476 |
| kGB0 | 3510 |
| kHanYu | 64216.060 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64216.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-432A |
| kTGH | 2013:2937 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6931 |
| kMandarin | máo |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 244.110:máo |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "錨" U+9328 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0768.050:máo |