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Glyph for U+953C
Source: Noto CJK

U+953C CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​953C

U+953C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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 to engrave (metal or wood). Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is sōu.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+953C offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 38204
UTF-8 E9 94 BC
UTF-16 95 3C
UTF-32 00 00 95 3C
URL-Quoted %E9%94%BC
HTML hex reference 锼
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 锼
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) EF CB
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) EF CB
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) EF CB
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) 7E 7B 6F 4B 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 41 6F 4B 1B 28 42
Pīnyīn sōu

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-953C
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✔
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✔
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+953C CJK Unified Ideograph-953C
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 29464A
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) XCHXE
kCantonese (kCantonese) sau1
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) to engrave (metal or wood)
kEACC (kEACC) 29464A
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 8774
kGB0 (kGB0) 7943
kHanYu (kHanYu) 64233.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 64233.050
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1328.061
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-6F4B
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1328.061
kMandarin (kMandarin) sōu
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1143*
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 167'.9
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:7680
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 349.060:sōu
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 14
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+93AA U+93AA
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) G
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1093.090:sōu