U+70C1 "烁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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

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