U+70C1 "烁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
烁
U+70C1 "烁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to glitter," "to sparkle," or "to shine brightly." It is composed of the fire radical "火" on the left, indicating its association with light or heat, and the phonetic component "乐" on the right. This character is commonly used in words like 闪烁 (shǎn shuò), meaning "to twinkle" or "to flicker," often describing the shimmering of stars, lights, or reflective surfaces. It can also imply brilliance or radiance in more literal or metaphorical contexts across both traditional and simplified Chinese writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+70C1 |
| 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 | 烁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 烁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x83 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x70C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000070C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u70c1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274A36 |
| kCangjie | FHVD |
| kCantonese | soek3 |
| kDefinition | shine, glitter, sparkle |
| kEACC | 274A36 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9289 |
| kGB0 | 4324 |
| kHanYu | 32196.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shuò(29) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32196.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0669.101 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B38 |
| kTGH | 2013:1657 |
| kKangXi | 0669.101 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3617 |
| kMandarin | shuò |
| kPhonetic | 972 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 395.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 345.090:shuò |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "爍" U+720D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1084.060:shuò |