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Glyph for U+9257
Source: Noto CJK

U+9257 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​9257

U+9257 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as pincers, pliers, tongs. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is qián.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+9257 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 37463
UTF-8 E9 89 97
UTF-16 92 57
UTF-32 00 00 92 57
URL-Quoted %E9%89%97
HTML-Escape 鉗
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 鉗
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) CC C6
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) EE E9
Pīnyīn qián

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9257
Unicode 1 Name —
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Script Han
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Case Folding Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✔
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base ✔
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✔
ID Start ✔
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✔
Indic Mantra Category —
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✔
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Other
White Space ✘
XID Continue ✔
XID Start ✔
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment —
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+9257 CJK Unified Ideograph-9257
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping B958
CCCII Mapping 215D4E
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 1-6740
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 1-6740
Cangjie Input Code CTM
kCantonese kim4
kCihaiT 1374.403
kCowles 1971
kDaeJaweon 1803.160
Unihan Definition pincers, pliers, tongs
kEACC 33502A
kFenn 101E
kFennIndex 65.03
kFourCornerCode 8417.0
kFrequency 5
kGB1 3915
kGSR 0606i
kHKGlyph 4246
kHanYu 64182.070
kHangul 겸:0N
kHanyuPinlu qián(17)
kHanyuPinyin 64182.070:qián,ān
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1803.160
kIRGDaiKanwaZiten 40306
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64182.070
kIRGKangXi 1301.140
kIRG_GSource G1-472F
kIRG_HSource HB1-B958
kIRG_JSource J0-6E69
kIRG_KPSource KP0-CFAA
kIRG_KSource K0-4C46
kIRG_TSource T1-6740
kIRG_VSource V1-6A3B
kJapaneseKun KUBIKASE
kJapaneseOn KAN KEN
kJis0 7873
kKPS0 CFAA
kKSC0 4438
kKangXi 1301.140
kKarlgren 298
kKorean KYEM
kKoreanName 2015
kLau 1694 1695
kMandarin qián
kMatthews 899
kMeyerWempe 1146
kMorohashi 40306
kNelson 4836
kPhonetic 177 650
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+6982+99.5.8 C+6982+167.8.5
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi) 167.5
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 167.5
kSBGY 228.01
Semantic Variant Glyph for U+9246 U+9246
Simplified Variant Glyph for U+94B3 U+94B3
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 6883
Stroke Number 13
UnihanCore2020 Set HJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation kiềm
Xerox Code 257:055