U+7168 "煨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
煨
U+7168 "煨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to stew" or "to simmer slowly over a low fire," often used in reference to cooking methods that involve gentle, prolonged heat, particularly for ingredients like meat or root vegetables. This character combines the radical for fire (火) on the left with a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic association with heat and slow cooking. In written Chinese, it appears in culinary contexts and in some literary descriptions of food preparation, where it conveys a sense of patience and gradual transformation through warmth.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7168 |
| 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 | 煨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 煨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x85 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7168 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007168 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7168 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B7DB |
| kCCCII | 225265 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6523 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6523 |
| kCangjie | FWMV |
| kCantonese | wui1 |
| kCihaiT | 854.401 |
| kCowles | 3133 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1089.050 |
| kDefinition | to stew, simmer |
| kEACC | 225265 |
| kFanqie | 烏恢 |
| kFenn | 352* |
| kFennIndex | 596.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9683.2 |
| kGB0 | 7648 |
| kGB1 | 7648 |
| kGSR | 0573f |
| kHangul | 외:1N |
| kHanYu | 32217.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32217.090:wēi,yù |
| kHKGlyph | 2408 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1089.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32217.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0678.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6C50 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B7DB |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7759 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-55A6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-686B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6523 |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3C51 |
| kJapanese | ウチ ウツ ワイ エ うずみび うずめやく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5561 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,87,57 |
| kJapaneseKun | UZUMIBI |
| kJapaneseOn | WAI UTSU UCHI |
| kJis1 | 4201 |
| kKangXi | 0678.010 |
| kKorean | OY |
| kLau | 3285 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3566 |
| kMandarin | wēi |
| kMatthews | 7072 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2175 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016514 |
| kMorohashi | 19228 |
| kNelson | 2776 |
| kPhonetic | 1428 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+16962+86.4.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.9 |
| kSBGY | 096.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 400.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wēi粵wui1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3566 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 381.110:wēi |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | oi |
| kXerox | 270:142 |
| kXHC1983 | 1191.030:wēi |