U+953F "锿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+953F "锿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the chemical element einsteinium, a synthetic, radioactive metal in the actinide series. It was coined by combining the metal radical "钅" (gold or metal) with the phonetic component "哀" to sound like the English element name, following the pattern used in modern Chinese nomenclature for transuranium elements. This character was added to the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logographic scripts, and it serves both as a scientific term and as a part of the broader writing system for East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+953F
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	锿
HTML Hex Encoding	锿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x94 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x953F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000953F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u953f

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

kCangjie	XXXCY
kCantonese	oi1
kDefinition	einsteinium (element 99, Es)
kEACC	4D4832
kFourCornerCode	8073
kGB0	7945
kHanYu	64235.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64235.050
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F4D
kTGH	2013:7684
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	0028
kMandarin	āi
kPhonetic	993*
kRSUnicode	167'.9
kTGHZ2013	002.020:āi
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"鎄" U+9384 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0003.010:āi