U+70A4 "炤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+70A4 "炤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese and Japanese kanji (Hanzi) that primarily means "to shine" or "to illuminate," and it is also associated with the concept of brightness or radiance. In classical Chinese texts, it can be used as a variant or synonym for the more common character 照 (zhào), which also means to shine or to reflect. The character is composed of the radical 火 (fire) on the left side, indicating its connection to light and heat, and the phonetic component 召 (zhào) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. While not as frequently used in modern simplified Chinese, 炤 appears in historical literary works and traditional vocabulary, particularly in contexts describing the act of shining light or the quality of brilliance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+70A4
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	炤
HTML Hex Encoding	炤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x82 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x70A4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000070A4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u70a4

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	ACB7
kCCCII	225064
kCNS1986	1-523A
kCNS1992	1-523A
kCangjie	FSHR
kCantonese	ziu3
kCihaiT	844.102
kDaeJaweon	1077.140
kDefinition	illumine, light up; reflect
kEACC	2D4971
kFanqie	之少
kFourCornerCode	9786.2
kGSR	1131n
kHangul	소:0N 조:N
kHanYu	32197.130
kHanyuPinyin	32197.130:zhào,zhāo,zhǎo
kIICore	ATHKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1077.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32197.130
kIRGKangXi	0668.110
kIRG_GSource	GE-405E
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ACB7
kIRG_JSource	J13-7746
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E3AC
kIRG_KSource	K0-613F
kIRG_TSource	T1-523A
kIRG_VSource	V1-5D78
kJapanese	ショウ シャク あきらか てる ひかる てらす
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	1,87,38
kJapaneseKun	TERU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU SHAKU
kJis1	4150
kKangXi	0668.110
kKorean	SO CO
kLau	1523
kMandarin	zhào
kMatthews	238
kMeyerWempe	316b
kMojiJoho	MJ016323
kMorohashi	18939
kPhonetic	219
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+16956+86.4.5
kRSUnicode	86.5
kSBGY	413.36
kSemanticVariant	U+7167<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	395.01
kTaiwanTelegraph	3513
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	HKMPT
kVietnamese	chiếu
kXerox	304:152
kXHC1983	1461.050:zhào