U+712B "焫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

焫

U+712B "焫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that traditionally represents the action of burning, particularly in the context of applying heat or cauterizing with fire. Its composition combines the fire radical with a phonetic component, and historically it appears in classical texts such as medical or ritual documents, where it often describes the process of burning therapeutic substances or performing sacrificial rites. In modern usage, the character is largely archaic and not commonly found in everyday writing, though it may be encountered in specialized fields like traditional Chinese medicine or historical linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point	U+712B
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	焫
HTML Hex Encoding	焫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x84 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x712B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000712B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u712b

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	225237
kCNS1986	E-3C7A
kCNS1992	3-3C7A
kCangjie	FTOB
kCantonese	naat3
kCheungBauer	086/08;FTOB;naat3
kCheungBauerIndex	436.08
kCihaiT	852.505
kDaeJaweon	1086.060
kDefinition	(Cant.) hot; to scald, burn
kFanqie	如劣
kGB5	4963
kGSR	0695r
kHanYu	32203.090
kHanyuPinyin	32203.090:ruò,rè
kIRGDaeJaweon	1086.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32203.090
kIRGKangXi	0674.170
kIRG_GSource	G5-515F
kIRG_HSource	H-FDED
kIRG_JSource	J13-774D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5556
kIRG_KSource	K2-4454
kIRG_TSource	T3-3C7A
kJapanese	ゼツネチ
kJIS0213	1,87,45
kJapaneseKun	YAKU
kJapaneseOn	ZETSU NECHI
kJis1	4176
kKangXi	0674.170
kMandarin	ruò
kMojiJoho	MJ016445 MJ016445:E0101 MJ016446:E0102
kMorohashi	19131:E0102
kPhonetic	1643
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+16958+86.4.7
kRSUnicode	86.8
kSBGY	498.46
kTaiwanTelegraph	3547
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	312:066
kXHC1983	0978.031:ruò