U+709A "炚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+709A "炚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that combines the radical for fire (火) with the phonetic component “光” (guāng, meaning light or brightness), suggesting meanings related to radiant heat or shining fire. This character is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese but appears in some historical or specialized contexts, such as classical texts or name characters, where it may denote a blaze or luminous energy. Its inclusion in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block reflects the comprehensive effort to encode lesser-known logograms from East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+709A
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 炚
HTML Hex Encoding 炚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x82 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x709A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000709A
C/C++/Java Escape \u709a

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

kBigFive CD59
kCCCII 22504E
kCNS1986 2-2779
kCNS1992 2-2779
kCangjie AF
kCantonese gwong1
kFourCornerCode 6908.0
kGB5 4157
kHangul 광:0N
kHanYu 32191.160
kIICore AKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32191.160
kIRGKangXi 0668.010
kIRG_GSource G5-4959
kIRG_HSource HB2-CD59
kIRG_JSource JMJ-016316
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D4B0
kIRG_KSource K0-4E49
kIRG_TSource T2-2779
kJapanese キョウ コウ
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 0668.010
kKorean KWANG
kMandarin guāng
kMojiJoho MJ016316
kMorohashi 18897
kRSUnicode 86.4
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 HKMPT