U+7179 "煹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7179 "煹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that traditionally means a signal fire, beacon, or torch used for communication or illumination in ancient times. It is composed of the radical "火" (fire) and the phonetic component "冓," reflecting its association with fire-based signaling. This character appears in classical texts such as the Mozi, where it describes a method of military communication using smoky fires at watchtowers, and it is sometimes confused with or used interchangeably with the more common character "燧" (suì) for fire-making tools.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7179
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	煹
HTML Hex Encoding	煹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x85 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7179
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007179
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7179

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	225326
kCangjie	FTTB
kCantonese	gau3
kDaeJaweon	1090.090
kFanqie	古候
kHanYu	32222.040
kHanyuPinyin	32222.040:gòu
kIRGDaeJaweon	1090.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32222.040
kIRGKangXi	0678.170
kIRG_GSource	GE-412C
kIRG_JSource	J1-4A22
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-55AB
kIRG_KSource	K2-4473
kIRG_TSource	T4-4457
kJapanese	コウ ク
kJapaneseKun	NOROSHI
kJapaneseOn	KOU KU
kJis1	4202
kKangXi	0678.170
kMandarin	gòu
kMojiJoho	MJ016527
kMorohashi	19264
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14764+86.4.10
kRSUnicode	86.10
kSBGY	439.37
kTotalStrokes	14