U+707D "災" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
災
U+707D "災" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "disaster," "calamity," or "catastrophe," originally depicting a combination of elements representing fire (火) and flood or harm, conveying the concept of natural or man made destruction. It is widely used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, appearing in compound words like 災害 (saigai) in Japanese or 火灾 (huǒzāi) in Chinese for "fire disaster." The character carries a strong cultural significance, often associated with misfortune, suffering, and the need for resilience in the face of tragic events.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+707D |
| 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 | 災 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 災 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x81 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x707D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000707D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u707d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A861 |
| kCCCII | 21494A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B24 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B24 |
| kCangjie | VVF |
| kCantonese | zoi1 |
| kCihaiT | 843.301 |
| kCowles | 4601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1075.230 |
| kDefinition | calamity, disaster, catastrophe |
| kEACC | 21494A |
| kFanqie | 祖才 |
| kFenn | 446C |
| kFennIndex | 537.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2280.9 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0940a |
| kHangul | 재:0E |
| kHanYu | 32190.060 32191.130 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zāi(110) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32190.060,32191.130:zāi |
| kHKGlyph | 2368 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1075.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32190.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0666.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-405B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A861 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A52 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EBDE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6E2C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B24 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5D71 |
| kJapanese | サイ わざわい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAZAWAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SAI |
| kJis0 | 2650 |
| kKangXi | 0666.180 |
| kKarlgren | 117 |
| kKorean | CAY |
| kLau | 1545 |
| kMandarin | zāi |
| kMatthews | 6652 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3431 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016284 MJ016284:E0101 MJ016285:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 18879 18879:E0101 18923:E0102 |
| kNelson | 1448 |
| kPhonetic | 124 238 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2114+47.3.4 C+2114+86.4.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.3 |
| kSBGY | 100.26 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+707E<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+70D6<kLau,kMatthews U+83D1<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "灾" U+707E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 392.15 189.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zāi粵zoi1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3505 |
| kTang | tzəi |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tai |
| kXerox | 247:274 |
| kXHC1983 | 1436.021:zāi |