U+95E9 "闩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+95E9 "闩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logographic symbol used in written Chinese, where it is pronounced "shuān" in Mandarin. This character is composed of the "door" radical (門) combined with a component representing a bolt or bar, and its core meaning is "door bolt" or "latch," referring to a horizontal bar used to secure a door from the inside. In modern usage, it can also function as a verb meaning "to bolt" or "to lock," and it appears in Japanese kanji with similar meanings, though the form is simplified in Japanese as 閂. The character is categorized under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which standardizes characters shared across East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+95E9
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 闩
HTML Hex Encoding 闩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x97 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x95E9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000095E9
C/C++/Java Escape \u95e9

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 275E4E
kCangjie LSM
kCantonese saan1
kDefinition bolt, latch, crossbar
kEACC 275E4E
kFourCornerCode 3710
kGB0 6737
kHanYu 74282.040
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74282.040
kIRGKangXi 1343.121
kIRG_GSource G0-6345
kTGH 2013:3522
kKangXi 1343.121
kMainlandTelegraph 7025
kMandarin shuān
kRSUnicode 169'.1
kTGHZ2013 343.110:shuān
kTotalStrokes 4
kTraditionalVariant "閂" U+9582 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1072.040:shuān