U+956D "镭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+956D "镭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the element radium, carrying the meaning of "radium" as a metallic chemical symbol. It is composed of the radical "金" (jīn), meaning gold or metal, and a phonetic component "雷" (léi), which means thunder, together forming a character used in modern Chinese to denote the radioactive element discovered by Marie Curie. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, where it functions as a standard logogram for radium in various technical and scientific contexts across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+956D
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	镭
HTML Hex Encoding	镭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x956D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000956D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u956d

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	275E3C
kCangjie	XCMBW
kCantonese	leoi4
kDefinition	radium (element 88, Ra)
kEACC	275E3C
kFourCornerCode	8176
kGB0	3256
kHanYu	64262.130
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64262.130
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-4058
kTGH	2013:6345
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	7012
kMandarin	léi
kRSUnicode	167'.13
kTGHZ2013	212.180:léi
kTotalStrokes	18
kTraditionalVariant	"鐳" U+9433 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0685.040:léi