U+9549 "镉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9549 "镉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents the chemical element cadmium, a soft, bluish-white metal used in batteries, pigments, and electroplating. In modern Chinese, it is typically used in scientific and industrial contexts to refer to this toxic heavy metal, while historically it may have been associated with the concept of a cauldron or a type of cooking vessel, though this usage is now obscure. The character is classified under the Kangxi radical 167 for metal (钅), reflecting its material nature, and it appears in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9549
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	镉
HTML Hex Encoding	镉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9549
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009549
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9549

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	29462D
kCangjie	XCMRB
kCantonese	gaak3
kDefinition	cadmium (element 48, Cd)
kEACC	29462D
kFourCornerCode	8172
kGB0	7951
kHanYu	64239.090
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64239.090
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F53
kTGH	2013:5947
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	9493
kMandarin	gé
kPhonetic	542*
kRSUnicode	167'.10
kTGHZ2013	111.090:gé
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"鎘" U+9398 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0371.070:gé