U+7072 "灲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7072 "灲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used East Asian ideograph that combines the fire radical (火) with the phonetic component 刂, though its exact historical meaning remains obscure and it does not appear in modern standard Chinese dictionaries. In classical Chinese texts, it may have functioned as a variant or scribal error for similar characters involving fire or cutting, but no authoritative definition is widely recognized. Its inclusion in Unicode primarily serves to preserve historical script diversity rather than for practical contemporary use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7072
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	灲
HTML Hex Encoding	灲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x81 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7072
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007072
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7072

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

kCNS1986	E-2427
kCNS1992	3-2427
kCangjie	FLN
kCantonese	haau1
kDaeJaweon	1075.090
kHanYu	32188.060
kIRGDaeJaweon	1075.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32188.060
kIRGKangXi	0666.020
kIRG_GSource	GE-4058
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-016269
kIRG_TSource	T3-2427
kIRG_VSource	V2-8D60
kJapanese	コウ
kKangXi	0666.020
kMandarin	xiāo
kMojiJoho	MJ016269
kMorohashi	18862
kRSUnicode	86.2
kTotalStrokes	6