U+9521 "锡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
锡
U+9521 "锡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "tin" as a metal, and it can also refer to "tin" in the context of tin cans or tinplate, as well as being used as a component in the word "xī" for "tin" in modern Mandarin. Historically, this character is associated with the metal element, and it appears in various compounds such as "锡纸" meaning "tin foil" or "aluminum foil" and "锡矿" meaning "tin mine". In Chinese culture and language, it is a common character with both practical and symbolic uses, and it is included in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a shared written form across these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9521 |
| 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 | 锡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 锡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x94 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9521 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009521 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9521 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275D72 |
| kCangjie | XCAPH |
| kCantonese | sek3 |
| kDefinition | tin, stannum; bestow, confer |
| kEACC | 275D72 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8672 |
| kGB0 | 4693 |
| kHanYu | 64219.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xī(25) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64219.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E7D |
| kTGH | 2013:2938 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6932 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kPhonetic | 1559* |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 392.160:xī |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "錫" U+932B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1228.160:xī |