U+9FEC "鿬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

鿬

U+9FEC "鿬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and relatively modern Chinese character, officially included in the Unicode Standard as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block. It represents the Chinese character for the synthetic chemical element tennessine, which has the atomic number 117 and is categorized as a halogen in the periodic table. This character was created specifically for the purpose of naming newly discovered or synthetic elements in Chinese, following the established system for forming Chinese character names for chemical elements. As such, it exemplifies how Unicode accommodates the ongoing evolution of written language to include specialized scientific terminology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9FEC
Version Added	11.0
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	鿬
HTML Hex Encoding	鿬
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBF 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9FEC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009FEC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9fec

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

kCantonese	tin4
kDefinition	tennessine (element 117)
kIRGKangXi	0829.331
kIRG_GSource	GCE-117
kIRG_TSource	T4-6E5D
kKangXi	0829.331
kMandarin	tián
kRSUnicode	112.5
kTotalStrokes	10