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

Code Point U+708F
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 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

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 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