U+9ED4 "黔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
黔
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
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 |