U+9524 "锤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9524 "锤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "hammer" as a noun or "to hammer" as a verb, commonly used in contexts related to tools, striking, and metalworking. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, which encodes shared logographic characters across these languages, and carries the same general meaning in both modern and classical Chinese texts. In Japanese, it is used in compounds like 金槌 (kanazuchi, meaning "metal hammer") and appears in vocabulary related to construction and craft. Its form combines the radical 钅 (金, meaning metal or gold) on the left with the phonetic component 垂 (meaning to hang or droop), giving it both semantic and phonetic cues. This character is widely recognized in East Asia for its practical and metaphorical applications, such as in the phrase 千锤百炼, which describes repeated refinement and discipline through hammering and tempering.

General Properties

Code Point U+9524
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 锤
HTML Hex Encoding 锤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x94 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9524
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009524
C/C++/Java Escape \u9524

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 275E22
kCangjie XCHJM
kCantonese ceoi4
kDefinition balance weight on scale; hammer
kEACC 275E22
kFourCornerCode 8271
kGB0 2024
kHanYu 64221.010
kHanyuPinlu chuí(15)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64221.010
kIRGKangXi 1328.061
kIRG_GSource G0-3438
kTGH 2013:2940
kKangXi 1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph 6925
kMandarin chuí
kRSUnicode 167'.8
kTGHZ2013 053.120:chuí
kTotalStrokes 13
kTraditionalVariant "錘" U+9318 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0169.040:chuí