U+712F "焯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
焯
U+712F "焯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to blanch or scald vegetables in boiling water, often as a preliminary cooking step to remove bitterness or prepare ingredients for further preparation. It also carries a secondary meaning of being bright or shining, linking to its radical "火" (fire) and the phonetic component "卓" which implies prominence. In classical texts, the character can be used metaphorically to indicate clarity or brilliance, such as in literary descriptions of radiant light. Modern usage remains common in Chinese cuisine vocabulary, though it appears less frequently in everyday writing outside of cooking contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+712F |
| 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 | 焯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 焯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x84 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x712F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000712F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u712f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DA5A |
| kCCCII | 225235 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3D5E |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3D5E |
| kCangjie | FYAJ |
| kCantonese | zoek3 |
| kCihaiT | 852.402 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1086.130 |
| kDefinition | boil vegetables for a very short time; scald |
| kEACC | 225235 |
| kFanqie | 之若 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9184.6 |
| kGB0 | 7644 |
| kGB1 | 7644 |
| kHangul | 작:1N |
| kHanYu | 32208.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32208.130:zhuō,zhuó,chuò,chāo |
| kIICore | BGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1086.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32208.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0675.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6C4C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DA5A |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-6F71 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-555A |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6B30 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3D5E |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8D63 |
| kJapanese | シャク トク タク チョク やく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5272 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,79,81 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKIRAKA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHAKU TOKU TAKU |
| kJis1 | 4178 |
| kKangXi | 0675.020 |
| kKorean | CAK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8743 |
| kMandarin | chāo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016451 |
| kMorohashi | 19139 |
| kPhonetic | 108 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18027+86.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.8 |
| kSBGY | 501.53 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 398.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhuō粵zoek3,coek3 chāo粵coek3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3625 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 040.050:chāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 304:163 |
| kXHC1983 | 0125.070:chāo 1526.070:zhuō |