U+71ED "燭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
燭
U+71ED "燭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "candle" or "to illuminate," historically representing a torch or a light source made from wax or tallow. It belongs to the fire radical (火) and is composed of 17 strokes, often used in classical texts and modern contexts to convey brightness, guidance, or illumination, such as in the phrase "蠟燭" (làzhú) for candle. This character encodes a concept central to traditional lighting and symbolic clarity in Chinese culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+71ED |
| 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 | 燭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 燭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x87 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x71ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000071ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u71ed |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C0EB |
| kCCCII | 214A30 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7436 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7436 |
| kCangjie | FWLI |
| kCantonese | zuk1 |
| kCihaiT | 861.402 |
| kCowles | 366 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1098.030 |
| kDefinition | candle, taper; to shine, illuminate |
| kEACC | 214A30 |
| kFanqie | 之欲 |
| kFenn | 788E |
| kFennIndex | 94.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9682.7 |
| kGB1 | 5482 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1224e |
| kHangul | 촉:0E |
| kHanYu | 32241.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhú(53) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32241.020:zhú,kuò |
| kHKGlyph | 2439 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1098.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32241.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0685.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5672 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C0EB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3F24 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EDFE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7537 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7436 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5E43 |
| kJapanese | ショク ソク シュ ともしび |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOMOSHIBI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOKU SOKU |
| kJis0 | 3104 |
| kKangXi | 0685.110 |
| kKorean | CHOK |
| kLau | 1601 |
| kMandarin | zhú |
| kMatthews | 1385 |
| kMeyerWempe | 397 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016663 |
| kMorohashi | 19480 |
| kNelson | 2811 |
| kPhonetic | 1264 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2538+86.4.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.13 |
| kSBGY | 461.05 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+70DB<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "烛" U+70DB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 405.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhú粵zuk1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3608 |
| kTang | *jiok |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đuốc |
| kXerox | 252:264 |
| kXHC1983 | 1508.071:zhú |