U+720A "爊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

爊

U+720A "爊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that traditionally carries meanings related to cooking or roasting, often specifically referring to a method of boiling or stewing meat in a seasoned liquid, sometimes over an open fire. It is composed of the fire radical (火) suggesting heat and the phonetic component "尧" or a similar element, and its usage is primarily found in classical Chinese texts or specialized culinary contexts, rather than in modern everyday language. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and has a Unicode number representing its unique position in the international encoding standard.

General Properties

Code Point	U+720A
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	爊
HTML Hex Encoding	爊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x88 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x720A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000720A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u720a

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

kBigFive	F26A
kCCCII	22545E
kCNS1986	2-6574
kCNS1992	2-6574
kCangjie	FIPF
kCantonese	ou1
kCihaiT	862.102
kCowles	3083
kDaeJaweon	1099.090
kDefinition	to stew, cook
kEACC	22545E
kFourCornerCode	9083.1
kGB5	5050
kHanYu	32246.030
kHanyuPinyin	32246.030:āo
kIRGDaeJaweon	1099.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32246.030
kIRGKangXi	0686.220
kIRG_GSource	G5-5252
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F26A
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-016696
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5646
kIRG_KSource	K2-4553
kIRG_TSource	T2-6574
kJapanese	オウオン
kKangXi	0686.220
kMandarin	āo
kMeyerWempe	2130
kMojiJoho	MJ016696
kMorohashi	19546
kPhonetic	1062*
kRSUnicode	86.15
kSMSZD2003Index	405.14
kSMSZD2003Readings	āo粵ou1
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	0011.010:āo