U+70A8 "炨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+70A8 "炨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that falls under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, specifically representing a logogram used in classical or specialized East Asian writing. Its precise meaning is ambiguous and not commonly found in modern dictionaries, though it is structurally composed of the radical for fire (火) combined with a phonetic or semantic component (perhaps related to "tuó" or "duò" in certain readings), suggesting potential associations with heat, burning, or a specific action related to fire. As part of the vast CJK repertoire, this character exists primarily in historical texts or specialized technical contexts, and due to its obscurity, it is rarely encountered in contemporary usage, serving more as a linguistic artifact for scholars studying archaic or variant Chinese scripts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
炨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
炨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE7 0x82 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x70A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000070A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u70a8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
22505E |
| kCNS1986 |
E-2D62 |
| kCNS1992 |
3-2D62 |
| kCangjie |
FJP |
| kCantonese |
se3 |
| kGB5 |
4939 |
| kHanYu |
32197.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
32197.040 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0668.160 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G5-5147 |
| kIRG_JSource |
JMJ-016327 |
| kIRG_TSource |
T3-2D62 |
| kJapanese |
タ |
| kKangXi |
0668.160 |
| kMandarin |
xiè |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ016327 |
| kMorohashi |
18945 |
| kRSUnicode |
86.5 |
| kTotalStrokes |
9 |