U+955B "镛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+955B "镛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of large ancient bell used in traditional Chinese music and ritual, often associated with the Zhou dynasty, where it was struck to signal or accompany ceremonies. Additionally, it is used in the name of the city of Yongzhou in Hunan Province, China, and carries the meaning of harmony or balanced sound due to its musical origins. The character is composed of the metal radical on the left, indicating its material, and the phonetic component on the right, reflecting its pronunciation as "yong" in Mandarin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+955B
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	镛
HTML Hex Encoding	镛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x955B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000955B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u955b

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	294656
kCangjie	XCILB
kCantonese	jung4
kDefinition	large bell used as musical instrument
kEACC	294656
kFourCornerCode	8072
kGB0	7962
kHanYu	64250.070
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64250.070
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F5E
kTGH	2013:6116
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	6978
kMandarin	yōng
kRSUnicode	167'.11
kTGHZ2013	441.130:yōng
kTotalStrokes	16
kTraditionalVariant	"鏞" U+93DE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1391.030:yōng