U+9ED4 "黔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9ED4 "黔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to the color black, specifically black or dark-colored hair or cloth, and is most famously used as an abbreviation for Guizhou Province in China, deriving from the ancient name of the region and the river that flows through it. In classical texts, it appears in terms like "黔首" (qian shou), meaning "black-headed commoners" referring to the populace, and it carries a conventional pronunciation of "qián" in Mandarin. The character's composition combines the radical 黑 (black) with the phonetic component 今, highlighting its semantic link to darkness.

General Properties

Code Point U+9ED4
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 黔
HTML Hex Encoding 黔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBB 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9ED4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009ED4
C/C++/Java Escape \u9ed4

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

kBigFive C072
kCCCII 216269
kCNS1986 1-733D
kCNS1992 1-733D
kCangjie WFOIN
kCantonese kim4
kCihaiT 1562.105
kDaeJaweon 2052.170
kDefinition black; Guizhou
kEACC 216269
kFanqie 巨金 巨淹
kFenn 434G
kFennIndex 64.03
kFourCornerCode 6832.7
kGB0 3913
kGB1 3913
kGSR 0651r
kHangul 검:0N
kHanYu 74744.190
kHanyuPinyin 74744.190:qián
kHKGlyph 4725
kIICore AGTHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 2052.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74744.190
kIRGKangXi 1519.040
kIRG_GSource G0-472D
kIRG_HSource HB1-C072
kIRG_JSource J0-7358
kIRG_KPSource KP0-CEE8
kIRG_KSource K0-4C23
kIRG_TSource T1-733D
kJapanese ケン ゲン キン ゴン くろい
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:3353
kJapaneseKun KUROI
kJapaneseOn KEN KIN
kJis0 8356
kKangXi 1519.040
kKarlgren 386
kKorean KEM KUM
kMainlandTelegraph 7816
kMandarin qián
kMatthews 896
kMeyerWempe 1148b
kMojiJoho MJ029896 MJ029896:E0101 MJ029897:E0102
kMorohashi 48056 48056:E0101
kPhonetic 565
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7435+203.12.4
kRSUnicode 203.4
kSBGY 219.15 228.06
kSMSZD2003Index 825.09
kSMSZD2003Readings qián粵kim4
kTaiwanTelegraph 7816
kTang ghyɛm
kTGHZ2013 296.180:qián
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 255:136
kXHC1983 0913.080:qián