U+7094 "炔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
炔
U+7094 "炔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in East Asian languages, consisting of the radical for fire (火) combined with a phonetic component, and it is pronounced as "quē" in Mandarin. It denotes acetylene, a chemical compound (C2H2) known as a fuel gas used in welding and cutting metals, and it also appears in the term "炔烃" which refers to the alkyne group in organic chemistry, a class of hydrocarbons with a triple carbon-carbon bond. Historically and linguistically, this character is an example of a modern-coined character, created in the 20th century to represent newly introduced scientific concepts, specifically from Western chemistry, and it remains in use today in technical and formal contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7094 |
| 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 | 炔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 炔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x82 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7094 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007094 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7094 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CD50 |
| kCCCII | 225046 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2770 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2770 |
| kCangjie | FDK |
| kCantonese | kyut3 |
| kCihaiT | 843.606 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1076.270 |
| kDefinition | an alkyne (e.g., acetylene) |
| kEACC | 39526B |
| kFanqie | 古惠 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9583.0 |
| kGB0 | 4018 |
| kGB1 | 4018 |
| kHanYu | 32194.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32194.030:guì,xuè,quē |
| kIICore | AGT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1076.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32194.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0667.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4832 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CD50 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-494C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-54CC |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4372 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2770 |
| kJapanese | ケイ ケ ケツ ケチ |
| kTGH | 2013:4008 |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI KE KETSU KECHI |
| kJis1 | 4144 |
| kKangXi | 0667.190 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7448 |
| kMandarin | quē guì |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016309 |
| kMorohashi | 18917 |
| kPhonetic | 667 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+21922+86.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.4 |
| kSBGY | 374.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 393.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | quē粵kyut3 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 310.150:quē |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 320:171 |
| kXHC1983 | 0420.110:guì 0950.080:quē |