U+709C "炜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+709C "炜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "bright" or "glowing," often used to describe the radiance or brilliance of light, such as the shimmer of fire or the luster of a gem. It is composed of the radical "火" (fire) on the left, which hints at its fiery or luminous quality, and the phonetic component "韦" on the right, contributing to its pronunciation "wěi" in Mandarin. This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts, frequently in poetic or descriptive contexts to evoke warmth, splendor, or vibrant illumination.

General Properties

Code Point	U+709C
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	炜
HTML Hex Encoding	炜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x82 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x709C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000709C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u709c

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	285252
kCangjie	FQS
kCantonese	wai5
kDefinition	brilliant red; glowing
kEACC	285252
kFourCornerCode	9582
kGB0	7631
kHanYu	32191.040
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32191.040
kIRGKangXi	0668.031
kIRG_GSource	G0-6C3F
kTGH	2013:4003
kKangXi	0668.031
kMainlandTelegraph	3555
kMandarin	wěi
kPhonetic	1433*
kRSUnicode	86.4
kSMSZD2003Index	394.01
kTGHZ2013	383.050:wěi
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"煒" U+7152 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1196.080:wěi