U+954F "镏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
镏
U+954F "镏" CJK Unified Ideograph- is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a radical or component in other characters, though it also carries its own meanings in historical and modern contexts. Often associated with metals or metalworking due to its "金" (gold/metal) radical on the left, the character "镏" can refer to a type of gold plating or gilding process, as seen in the term "镏金" (liú jīn), which denotes the technique of applying a thin layer of gold to a surface. It is also used as a surname in Chinese culture, and its usage appears in classical texts related to metallurgy and decorative arts. The character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block under Unicode, representing a standardized encoding for East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+954F |
| 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 | 镏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 镏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x95 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x954F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000954F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u954f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 294647 |
| kCangjie | XCHHW |
| kCantonese | lau4 |
| kDefinition | distil; lutetium; surname |
| kEACC | 294647 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8776 |
| kGB0 | 7954 |
| kHanYu | 64243.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64243.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6F56 |
| kTGH | 2013:5950 |
| kKangXi | 1328.061 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 9490 |
| kMandarin | liú |
| kPhonetic | 782* |
| kRSUnicode | 167'.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 228.130:liú 229.130:liù |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鎦" U+93A6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0728.040:liú 0730.040:liù |