U+9558 "镘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9558 "镘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally refers to a plasterer's trowel or a tool used for smoothing surfaces in construction, such as in bricklaying or plastering. In modern usage, it also appears in the word "镘刀" specifically denoting a trowel tool. The character belongs to the metal radical 钅, reflecting its original association with metal tools, and is classified under the Kangxi radical 167, with its pronunciation in Mandarin being "màn." Its structure combines the semantic component for metal with a phonetic element, illustrating the typical formation of many CJK ideographs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9558
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	镘
HTML Hex Encoding	镘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9558
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009558
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9558

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	275E35
kCangjie	XCAWE
kCantonese	maan6
kDefinition	trowel
kEACC	275E35
kFourCornerCode	8674
kGB0	7960
kHanYu	64249.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64249.010
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F5C
kTGH	2013:6114
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	6976
kMandarin	màn
kRSUnicode	167'.11
kTGHZ2013	243.100:màn
kTotalStrokes	16
kTraditionalVariant	"鏝" U+93DD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0764.060:màn