U+708C "炌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+708C "炌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used primarily in historical or classical texts, though its modern usage is extremely rare and it may not be found in common vocabulary. This character is composed of the radical "火" (fire) on the left side and a phonetic component on the right, suggesting it likely relates to fire, heat, or a specific action involving fire, though its precise meaning and pronunciation are obscure and not well documented in contemporary dictionaries. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it represents a discrete encoded symbol for digital text processing, but its practical function in modern writing is largely limited to specialized linguistic or historical research contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+708C
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 炌
HTML Hex Encoding 炌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x82 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x708C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000708C
C/C++/Java Escape \u708c

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 225059
kCNS1986 E-2979
kCNS1992 3-2979
kCangjie FOLL
kCantonese kaai3
kDaeJaweon 1076.190
kEACC 225059
kFourCornerCode 9882.0
kGB3 4755
kHanYu 32192.090
kHanyuPinyin 32192.090:kài
kIRGDaeJaweon 1076.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32192.090
kIRGKangXi 0667.110
kIRG_GSource G3-4F57
kIRG_JSource JMJ-016300
kIRG_KPSource KP1-54CA
kIRG_TSource T3-2979
kJapanese カイ
kTGH 2013:6717
kKangXi 0667.110
kMandarin kài
kMojiJoho MJ016300
kMorohashi 18908
kRSUnicode 86.4
kTGHZ2013 192.130:kài
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 G