U+9563 "镣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9563 "镣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that typically refers to fetters or shackles, particularly those used for restraining prisoners, and it is composed of the metal radical on the left, indicating its association with iron or metal, and a phonetic component on the right. This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts to denote leg irons or manacles, often symbolizing imprisonment or bondage, and it is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which standardizes East Asian characters across different languages and regions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9563
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	镣
HTML Hex Encoding	镣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9563
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009563
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9563

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	294760
kCangjie	XCKCF
kCantonese	liu4
kDefinition	fetters
kEACC	294760
kFourCornerCode	8479
kGB0	3345
kHanYu	64255.090
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64255.090
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-414D
kTGH	2013:6247
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	9507
kMandarin	liào
kRSUnicode	167'.12
kTGHZ2013	223.140:liào
kTotalStrokes	17
kTraditionalVariant	"鐐" U+9410 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0712.060:liào