U+9570 "镰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9570 "镰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a sickle or a scythe, a farming tool with a curved blade used for cutting crops like grain or grass. This character is composed of the radical for metal or gold combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its historical association with agricultural implements made from metal. In modern usage, it appears in terms such as "镰刀" (liándāo) meaning sickle, and it also carries symbolic weight in political and historical contexts, notably representing the hammer and sickle emblem associated with communism and labor movements.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9570
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	镰
HTML Hex Encoding	镰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9570
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009570
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9570

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	275E3A
kCangjie	XCITC
kCantonese	lim4
kDefinition	sickle
kEACC	275E3A
kFourCornerCode	8073
kGB0	3313
kHanYu	64265.130
kHanyuPinlu	lián(14)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64265.130
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-412D
kTGH	2013:3444
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	6991
kMandarin	lián
kRSUnicode	167'.13
kTGHZ2013	219.140:lián
kTotalStrokes	18
kTraditionalVariant	"鐮" U+942E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0701.070:lián