U+9531 "锱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9531 "锱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (simplified from traditional 鍿) that historically represents an ancient unit of weight, approximately equivalent to one quarter of a tael or about 1.3 grams, and in modern standard Mandarin it is pronounced "zī". It is most familiar in the Chinese idiom "锱铢必较" (zī zhū bì jiào), which literally means "to haggle over every zī and zhū" and figuratively describes a person who is overly meticulous or petty about small amounts of money or trivial matters. The character belongs to the metal radical (钅, abbreviated from 金) and carries the connotation of precious metal or weight measurement.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9531
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	锱
HTML Hex Encoding	锱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x94 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9531
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009531
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9531

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	294532
kCangjie	XCVVW
kCantonese	zi1
kDefinition	an ancient unit of weight (one-eighth of a tael)
kEACC	294532
kFourCornerCode	8276
kGB0	7937
kHanYu	64227.120
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64227.120
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F45
kTGH	2013:5492
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	6926
kMandarin	zī
kRSUnicode	167'.8
kTGHZ2013	491.130:zī
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"錙" U+9319 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1530.120:zī