U+955E "镞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+955E "镞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to an arrowhead or the pointed tip of an arrow, often used in classical texts and modern contexts related to archery or weaponry. Composed of the metal radical "钅" on the left and the phonetic component "族" on the right, it conveys the idea of a sharp metal piercing object. In historical and literary usage, "镞" symbolizes precision and attack, appearing in idioms and descriptions of ancient warfare. While less common in everyday modern Chinese, it remains a recognized part of the CJK character set, used in specialized writing or typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+955E
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	镞
HTML Hex Encoding	镞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x955E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000955E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u955e

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	275E2E
kCangjie	XCYSK
kCantonese	zuk6
kDefinition	arrowhead, barb; swift, quick
kEACC	275E2E
kFourCornerCode	8878
kGB0	7963
kHanYu	64251.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64251.060
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F5F
kTGH	2013:6118
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	6968
kMandarin	zú
kPhonetic	306*
kRSUnicode	167'.11
kTGHZ2013	494.130:zú
kTotalStrokes	16
kTraditionalVariant	"鏃" U+93C3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1544.070:zú