U+9571 "镱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9571 "镱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the element ytterbium, a lanthanide series rare-earth metal with the chemical symbol Yb and atomic number 70. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. In modern usage, "镱" primarily appears in scientific and technical contexts, such as chemistry textbooks, periodic tables, and materials science discussions, where it denotes the metallic element commonly used in laser technology, stress sensors, and certain alloys.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9571
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	镱
HTML Hex Encoding	镱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x95 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9571
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009571
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9571

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	294774
kCangjie	XCYTP
kCantonese	ji3
kDefinition	ytterbium (element 70, Yb)
kEACC	294774
kFourCornerCode	8073
kGB0	7978
kHanYu	64265.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64265.160
kIRGKangXi	1328.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-6F6E
kTGH	2013:8004
kKangXi	1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph	7919
kMandarin	yì
kPhonetic	1535*
kRSUnicode	167'.13
kTGHZ2013	436.040:yì
kTotalStrokes	18
kTraditionalVariant	"鐿" U+943F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1367.030:yì