U+9545 "镅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
镅
U+9545 "镅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the chemical element americium, a synthetic radioactive metal with the symbol Am and atomic number 95. Its composition combines the radical for gold or metal (钅) with the phonetic component "美" meaning beautiful or America, reflecting its naming after the Americas, analogous to its lanthanide counterpart europium. This character is classified as a Simplified Chinese form, used in modern texts to refer to the element discovered during the Manhattan Project and primarily produced in nuclear reactors.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9545 |
| 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 | 镅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 镅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x95 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9545 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009545 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9545 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 29454E |
| kCangjie | XCAHU |
| kCantonese | mei4 |
| kDefinition | americium (element 95, Am) |
| kEACC | 29454E |
| kFourCornerCode | 8776 |
| kGB0 | 7949 |
| kHanYu | 64236.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64236.170 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6F51 |
| kTGH | 2013:7687 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5296 |
| kMandarin | méi |
| kPhonetic | 889* |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.9 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 246.090:méi |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鎇" U+9387 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0773.040:méi |