U+9547 "镇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9547 "镇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "town" or "to suppress" and is commonly used in both modern and classical Chinese texts. It appears in the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, and its traditional form is identical to the simplified form, though it can also be written as "鎮" in some contexts. In Mandarin, it is pronounced "zhèn" and carries a range of meanings including a small administrative division, a garrison town, or the action of calming or controlling something, such as in the word "镇压" meaning "to suppress."

General Properties

Code Point U+9547
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 镇
HTML Hex Encoding 镇
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x95 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9547
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009547
C/C++/Java Escape \u9547

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 275E27
kCangjie OVJBC
kCantonese zan3
kDefinition town, market place; suppress
kEACC 275E27
kFourCornerCode 8478
kGB0 5382
kHanYu 64239.010
kHanyuPinlu zhèn(216)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64239.010
kIRGKangXi 1328.061
kIRG_GSource G0-5572
kIRG_HSource H-9D74
kTGH 2013:3256
kKangXi 1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph 6966
kMandarin zhèn
kPhonetic 63*
kRSUnicode 167'.10
kTGHZ2013 472.200:zhèn
kTotalStrokes 15
kTraditionalVariant "鎮" U+93AE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXHC1983 1470.040:zhèn