U+709E "炞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+709E "炞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obscure Chinese character composed of the fire radical (火) on the left and the phonetic component 卞 (biàn) on the right, often implying a meaning related to fire or burning in classical or historical contexts. In modern standard Chinese, it is not commonly used in daily writing or speech, and its precise definition can vary across different dictionaries, sometimes referring to a small flame or a type of kindling. The character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems, and its usage is primarily found in specialized or ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+709E
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 炞
HTML Hex Encoding 炞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x82 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x709E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000709E
C/C++/Java Escape \u709e

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

kCangjie FYY
kCantonese bin6
kHanYu 32193.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32193.011
kIRGKangXi 0668.031
kIRG_GSource GT-3513
kKangXi 0668.031
kMainlandTelegraph 3513
kMandarin bian
kPhonetic 1044*
kRSUnicode 86.4
kTotalStrokes 8
kXerox 324:161