U+94C1 "铁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+94C1 "铁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the element iron, both in its literal sense as a metal and in various figurative meanings such as strength, firmness, or unyielding nature. It is widely used in modern and classical Chinese writing, appearing in words for hardware, railway (tielu), and metaphors like "iron rice bowl" to denote stable employment. The character combines the radical for gold or metal (钅) on the left, indicating its material association, with a phonetic component (失) on the right that provides a clue to its pronunciation.