U+708B "炋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+708B "炋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or historical Chinese character that combines the radical for fire (火) on the left with a phonetic component, likely related to the character "丕" (pī), suggesting a pronunciation and meaning tied to fire or burning. While not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese texts, it is classified as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph, meaning it may appear in classical literature or specialized dictionaries where it could denote a specific type of fire-related concept or a proper noun. Its exact definition and usage are sparsely documented, but it belongs to the extensive set of ideographs encoded to support the full range of historical and regional East Asian written languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+708B
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 炋
HTML Hex Encoding 炋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x82 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x708B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000708B
C/C++/Java Escape \u708b

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

kCCCII 245074
kCNS1986 E-296F
kCNS1992 3-296F
kCangjie FMF
kCantonese pui1
kDaeJaweon 1076.180
kHanYu 32191.100
kHanyuPinyin 32191.100:pī
kIRGDaeJaweon 1076.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32191.100
kIRGKangXi 0667.090
kIRG_GSource GE-405C
kIRG_HSource H-FB63
kIRG_JSource JMJ-016299
kIRG_TSource T3-296F
kJapanese ハイ ヘ
kKangXi 0667.090
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ016299
kMorohashi 18906
kRSUnicode 86.4
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 H