U+9559 "镙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9559 "镙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a standard logograph used in written Chinese. It is composed of the metal radical (钅) on the left, which indicates a connection to metals or metalworking, and the phonetic component "罗" (luó) on the right, which suggests its pronunciation. The character "镙" is commonly used in modern Chinese to refer to a screw or threaded fastener, often appearing in terms like "螺丝" (luósī, meaning screw) or as a variant in technical and industrial contexts. Its traditional counterpart, "鏍", carries the same meaning, and the simplified form reflects standardized simplification processes in mainland China. Overall, this character plays a functional role in describing hardware and mechanical components.

General Properties

Code Point U+9559
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 镙
HTML Hex Encoding 镙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x95 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9559
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009559
C/C++/Java Escape \u9559

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 275E36
kCangjie XCWVF
kCantonese lo4
kEACC 275E36
kFourCornerCode 8679
kGB0 7961
kHanYu 64249.031
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64249.031
kIRGKangXi 1328.061
kIRG_GSource G0-6F5D
kKangXi 1328.061
kMandarin luó
kRSUnicode 167'.11
kTotalStrokes 16
kTraditionalVariant "鏍" U+93CD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G