U+9523 "锣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9523 "锣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a traditional percussion instrument known as the gong or flat bronze drum. Commonly used in East Asian cultural contexts, this ideograph appears in both simplified and traditional Chinese writing systems, where it refers specifically to a struck metal disc that produces a resonant, crashing sound, often employed in orchestras, festivals, and theatrical performances. Its structure combines the metal radical "钅" with the phonetic component "罗," indicating both its material and pronunciation in Mandarin as "luó."

General Properties

Code Point	U+9523
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	锣
HTML Hex Encoding	锣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x94 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9523
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009523
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9523

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	275E49
kCangjie	CWLN
kCantonese	lo4
kDefinition	gong
kEACC	275E49
kFourCornerCode	8672
kGB0	3464
kHanYu	64220.030
kHanyuPinlu	luó(28)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64220.030
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-4260
kTGH	2013:2939
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	7017
kMandarin	luó
kPhonetic	828*
kRSUnicode	167'.8
kSMSZD2003Index	731.09
kTGHZ2013	238.100:luó
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"鑼" U+947C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0750.050:luó