U+707E "灾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
灾
U+707E "灾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "disaster," "calamity," or "catastrophe," often referring to natural or man-made misfortunes such as floods, fires, or other destructive events. Its composition combines the radical for fire (火) over the radical for water (川 or a variant of it), symbolizing the conflicting elements of fire and water that can cause widespread harm. This character is commonly used in modern Chinese vocabulary, appearing in words like "灾难" (zāinàn, meaning disaster) and "火灾" (huǒzāi, meaning fire disaster), and it carries a strong cultural connotation of adversity and the need for resilience.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+707E |
| 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 | 灾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 灾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x81 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x707E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000707E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u707e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 225037 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2660 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2660 |
| kCangjie | JF |
| kCantonese | zoi1 |
| kCihaiT | 843.303 |
| kCowles | 4602 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1075.250 |
| kDefinition | calamity, disaster, catastrophe |
| kEACC | 27494A |
| kFanqie | 祖才 |
| kFennIndex | 537.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3080 |
| kGB0 | 5254 |
| kGB1 | 5254 |
| kGSR | 0940d |
| kHangul | 재:1N |
| kHanYu | 32190.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zāi(110) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1075.250 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32190.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0666.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5456 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FDE1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-6F5B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-54C2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6B55 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2660 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5D72 |
| kJapanese | サイ わざわい |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:883 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,79,59 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAZAWAAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SAI |
| kJis1 | 4140 |
| kKangXi | 0666.220 |
| kKarlgren | 117 |
| kKorean | CAY |
| kLau | 1545 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3506 |
| kMandarin | zāi |
| kMatthews | 6652 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3431 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016286 |
| kMorohashi | 18881 |
| kPhonetic | 238 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14750+40.3.4 C+14750+86.4.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.3 |
| kSBGY | 100.25 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+707D<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+83D1<kFenn U+70D6<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "灾" U+707E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 166.13 393.03 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3506 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 456.090:zāi |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "災" U+707D CJK Unified Ideograph-# "灾" U+707E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kVietnamese | tai |
| kXHC1983 | 1436.020:zāi |