U+70C9 "烉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+70C9 "烉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character composed of the fire radical over the phonetic component "奂," and it generally signifies the concept of brightness, brilliance, or blazing light. It appears in classical Chinese texts as a variant or alternative form of characters like "焕" or "烜," which carry similar meanings of glowing or radiant heat. While not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, it may be encountered in historical literature, poetry, or specialized calligraphy, where its intricate structure evokes vivid imagery of fire and luminous energy.

General Properties

Code Point U+70C9
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 烉
HTML Hex Encoding 烉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x83 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x70C9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000070C9
C/C++/Java Escape \u70c9

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 245149
kCNS1986 E-6279
kCNS1992 3-6279
kCangjie NBF
kCantonese wun6
kDefinition shining, brilliant, lustrous
kHanYu 32200.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32200.150
kIRGKangXi 0669.190
kIRG_GSource GE-4061
kIRG_JSource JMJ-016357
kIRG_KPSource KP1-551C
kIRG_KSource K2-4422
kIRG_TSource T4-2D75
kJapanese カン
kJapaneseKun AKIRAKA
kJapaneseOn KAN
kKangXi 0669.190
kKorean HWAN
kMandarin huàn
kMojiJoho MJ016357
kMorohashi 18989
kRSUnicode 86.6
kTotalStrokes 10