U+7172 "煲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
煲
U+7172 "煲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means a deep, wide mouthed pot or cauldron used for cooking, particularly for simmering soups, stews, or rice, and it also functions as a verb meaning to cook slowly in such a vessel. Commonly used in Cantonese and other southern Chinese dialects, it appears in words like "煲湯" (to boil soup) and "電飯煲" (electric rice cooker), emphasizing its cultural association with slow, moist heat cooking methods. The character is composed of the fire radical (火) and the phonetic component "保," reflecting both its thermal nature and its pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7172 |
| 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 | 煲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 煲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x85 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7172 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007172 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7172 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DE73 |
| kCCCII | 225276 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4459 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4459 |
| kCangjie | FWB |
| kCantonese | bou1 |
| kCheungBauer | 009/11;ODF;bou1 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 340.08 |
| kCihaiT | 855.110 |
| kDefinition | to heat; to boil a saucepan |
| kEACC | 225276 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2680.9 |
| kGB0 | 7650 |
| kGB1 | 7650 |
| kHanYu | 32218.150 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32218.150:bāo |
| kIICore | BGTHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32218.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0678.161 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6C52 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DE73 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-016524 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4470 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4459 |
| kJapanese | ホウ |
| kTGH | 2013:5506 |
| kKangXi | 0678.161 |
| kLau | 115 116 |
| kMandarin | bāo |
| kMatthews | 4948 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2403 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016524 |
| kMorohashi | 19260 |
| kPhonetic | 1068 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.9 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 400.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bāo粵bou1 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 012.080:bāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 320:244 |
| kXHC1983 | 0035.120:bāo |