U+954A "镊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+954A "镊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a pair of tweezers or small forceps, commonly used for grasping or plucking fine objects such as hairs or splinters. In modern Chinese, the character "镊" is frequently found in contexts like "镊子," which directly translates to tweezers, and it is employed in both everyday grooming and specialized medical or electronic assembly tasks. Its composition reflects the metal radical "钅" on the left, indicating its association with metallic tools, and the phonetic component "聂" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation as "niè" in Mandarin. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, enabling consistent representation across digital systems that support East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+954A
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 镊
HTML Hex Encoding 镊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x95 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x954A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000954A
C/C++/Java Escape \u954a

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 294871
kCangjie XCSJE
kCantonese nip6
kDefinition tweezers, forceps, pincers
kEACC 294871
kFourCornerCode 8174
kGB0 3687
kHanYu 64240.020
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64240.020
kIRGKangXi 1328.061
kIRG_GSource G0-4477
kTGH 2013:5946
kKangXi 1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph 7015
kMandarin niè
kPhonetic 979*
kRSUnicode 167'.10
kSMSZD2003Index 735.15
kTGHZ2013 267.170:niè
kTotalStrokes 15
kTraditionalVariant "鑷" U+9477 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0834.080:niè