U+70AF "炯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+70AF "炯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "bright," "luminous," or "dazzling," often used to describe a clear, shining light or a person's bright, penetrating gaze. Its composition combines the radical for fire (火) on the left with the phonetic component 冋, which suggests both sound and meaning related to illumination or clarity. In modern usage, it appears in words like 炯炯 (jiǒngjiǒng) to describe sparkling, intelligent eyes, and it is commonly found in literary contexts emphasizing brilliance or sharp perception. Despite its specific visual and semantic nuances, it remains a relatively common character in both classical and contemporary Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+70AF
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 炯
HTML Hex Encoding 炯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x82 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x70AF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000070AF
C/C++/Java Escape \u70af

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 ACB3
kCCCII 214954
kCNS1986 1-5236
kCNS1992 1-5236
kCangjie FBR
kCantonese gwing2
kCihaiT 844.301
kCowles 2091
kDaeJaweon 1078.030
kDefinition bright, brilliant, clear; hot
kEACC 214954
kFanqie 戶頂 古迥
kFourCornerCode 9782.0
kGB0 3028
kGB1 3028
kHangul 형:0N
kHanYu 32195.160
kHanyuPinlu jiǒng(28)
kHanyuPinyin 32195.160:jiǒng
kHKGlyph 2379
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1078.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32195.160
kIRGKangXi 0668.260
kIRG_GSource G0-3E3C
kIRG_HSource HB1-ACB3
kIRG_JSource J0-5F57
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F3E9
kIRG_KSource K0-7B26
kIRG_TSource T1-5236
kJapanese ケイ キョウ ギョウ あきらか
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:4327
kJapaneseKun AKIRAKA
kJapaneseOn KEI KYOU
kJis0 6355
kKangXi 0668.260
kKorean HYENG
kMainlandTelegraph 3518
kMandarin jiǒng
kMatthews 1241
kMeyerWempe 1407e
kMojiJoho MJ016337
kMorohashi 18956
kNelson 2755
kPhonetic 742
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5554+86.4.5
kRSUnicode 86.5
kSBGY 319.17 319.22
kSemanticVariant U+70F1<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index 394.07
kSMSZD2003Readings jiǒng粵gwing2
kTaiwanTelegraph 3518
kTGHZ2013 181.150:jiǒng
kTotalStrokes 9
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 264:123
kXHC1983 0604.130:jiǒng