U+708F "炏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+708F "炏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that appears in a very small subset of historical or regional texts, often representing a variant or component form related to fire. Structurally, it is composed of two instances of the radical for fire, 火, arranged side by side, though it is not a commonly used character in modern Mandarin or standard vocabulary. In old and medieval Chinese scripts, such doubled forms sometimes served as shorthand or graphic variants for characters like 炎 (yán, meaning "flame" or "blaze"), but "炏" itself remains obscure and is rarely encountered outside specialized paleographic or dictionary contexts. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that scholars and digital archives can represent this rare graphical form without relying on private use areas or font substitutions.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
炏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
炏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE7 0x82 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x708F |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000708F |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u708f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
225044 |
| kCNS1986 |
E-2972 |
| kCNS1992 |
3-2972 |
| kCangjie |
FF |
| kCantonese |
kaai3 |
| kDaeJaweon |
1076.220 |
| kGB5 |
4928 |
| kHanYu |
32193.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin |
32193.050:kài,yán |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
1076.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
32193.050 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0667.140 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G5-513C |
| kIRG_HSource |
H-90A6 |
| kIRG_JSource |
JMJ-016304 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP1-54CB |
| kIRG_TSource |
T3-2972 |
| kJapanese |
カイ エン |
| kKangXi |
0667.140 |
| kMandarin |
kài |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ016304 |
| kMorohashi |
18911 |
| kRSUnicode |
86.4 |
| kTotalStrokes |
8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
H |