U+9528 "锨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9528 "锨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "shovel" or "spade," specifically a tool used for digging or moving loose materials like soil, sand, or grain. It is composed of the radical for metal (钅) on the left, indicating its material, and the phonetic component "欣" (xin) on the right, which suggests its pronunciation. This character is commonly used in agricultural and construction contexts, often appearing in compound words like "铁锨" (tiě xiān, meaning "iron shovel") and is part of the standard repertoire of simplified Chinese characters, distinct from its traditional counterpart "杴."

General Properties

Code Point	U+9528
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	锨
HTML Hex Encoding	锨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x94 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9528
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009528
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9528

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	294531
kCangjie	XXCHL
kCantonese	him1
kDefinition	shovel
kEACC	294531
kFourCornerCode	8778
kGB0	4739
kHanYu	64222.070
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64222.070
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-4F47
kTGH	2013:5489
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	9475
kMandarin	xiān
kPhonetic	1481*
kRSUnicode	167'.8
kTGHZ2013	397.140:xiān
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"鍁" U+9341 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1246.030:xiān