U+9568 "镨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9568 "镨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the element praseodymium, a rare-earth metal with the chemical symbol Pr and atomic number 60. It is classified within the Kangxi radical 金 meaning "metal" or "gold," reflecting its association with metallic substances, and its simplified form is used in modern Simplified Chinese. This character is a phono-semantic compound, where the left component indicates its metal classification and the right component, 普, provides a phonetic clue to its pronunciation as pǔ in Mandarin. It is commonly employed in scientific and chemical contexts, particularly in naming the element in Chinese nomenclature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9568
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	镨
HTML Hex Encoding	镨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9568
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009568
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9568

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	29473C
kCangjie	XCTCA
kCantonese	pou2
kDefinition	praseodymium (element 59, Pr)
kEACC	29473C
kFourCornerCode	8876
kGB0	7972
kHanYu	64258.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64258.120
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F68
kTGH	2013:7942
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	9506
kMandarin	pǔ
kRSUnicode	167'.12
kTGHZ2013	289.080:pǔ
kTotalStrokes	17
kTraditionalVariant	"鐠" U+9420 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0890.050:pǔ