U+720C "爌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

爌

U+720C "爌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically rich Chinese character that primarily signifies radiance, brilliance, or blazing light, often used in classical texts to describe the intense glow of fire or the sun. It is composed of the radical "火" (fire) on the left and the phonetic component "廣" (wide or expansive) on the right, suggesting a broad, sweeping brightness. While not common in modern standard Chinese, this character occasionally appears in older literary works, poetry, or specialized dictionaries, and it also exists as a variant form in certain characters from other East Asian languages, such as Korean and Japanese kanji, where it may carry similar meanings related to illumination and grandeur.

General Properties

Code Point	U+720C
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	爌
HTML Hex Encoding	爌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x88 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x720C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000720C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u720c

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	F269
kCCCII	22544B
kCNS1986	2-6573
kCNS1992	2-6573
kCangjie	FITC
kCantonese	kong3
kCihaiT	862.103
kDaeJaweon	1099.100
kEACC	22544B
kFanqie	呼晃丘晃苦謗
kFourCornerCode	9088.6
kGB3	4747
kHangul	광:1N
kHanYu	32243.130
kHanyuPinyin	32243.130:kuàng,huǎng,kuǎng
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	1099.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32243.130
kIRGKangXi	0686.240
kIRG_GSource	G3-4F4F
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F269
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-016698
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-563B
kIRG_KSource	K1-5976
kIRG_TSource	T2-6573
kIRG_VSource	V1-5E47
kJapanese	コウ
kKoreanName	2015
kKangXi	0686.240
kKorean	KWANG
kMandarin	kuàng
kMojiJoho	MJ016698
kMorohashi	19548
kRSUnicode	86.15
kSBGY	315.24 315.42 428.28
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kVietnamese	quáng