U+709B "炛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
炛
U+709B "炛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character composed of the fire radical (火) and the phonetic component 化, with its traditional form also appearing as 炛 in some historical texts. Its pronunciation varies depending on the regional dialect and historical context, often recorded as a variant of characters like 光 (guāng, meaning "light" or "brightness") or 烖 (zāi, meaning "disaster" or "blaze"), reflecting its semantic association with fire and illumination. In classical Chinese literature and inscriptions, 炛 occasionally appears as a stylistic or archaic alternative, but it is not commonly used in modern written Chinese, making it an obscure yet fascinating relic of the language's evolving palaeography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+709B |
| 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 | 炛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 炛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x82 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x709B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000709B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u709b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | FOP |
| kCantonese | gwong1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1077.040 |
| kGB5 | 4924 |
| kHangul | 광:N |
| kHanYu | 32192.060 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1077.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32192.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0668.031 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-5138 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-4951 |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-272B |
| kJapanese | キョウ コウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | TERUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | YOU KYOU |
| kJis1 | 4149 |
| kKangXi | 0668.031 |
| kMandarin | guāng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016317 |
| kMorohashi | 18925 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+21924+86.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.4 |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |