U+71EF "燯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+71EF "燯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that appears in classical texts and the Kangxi Dictionary, primarily found in historical or literary contexts rather than modern usage. It is composed of the radical for fire, suggesting a relation to heat or light, and the phonetic component "令", though its precise meaning is obscure and often cited as an alternative form of the character "燖" (to reheat or warm up food). This glyph is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is used in traditional Chinese and some historical Japanese kanji, but it lacks a well-defined, standalone definition in contemporary dictionaries, making it a subject of interest for paleography and encoding standardization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+71EF
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	燯
HTML Hex Encoding	燯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x87 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x71EF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000071EF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u71ef

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	22543B
kCNS1986	E-5541
kCNS1992	3-5541
kCangjie	FMBI
kCantonese	ling4
kGB3	4856
kHanYu	32240.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32240.130
kIRGKangXi	0685.140
kIRG_GSource	G3-5058
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-016666
kIRG_TSource	T3-5541
kJapanese	レイ
kKangXi	0685.140
kMandarin	líng
kMojiJoho	MJ016666
kMorohashi	19483
kRSUnicode	86.13
kTotalStrokes	17