U+720D "爍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
爍
U+720D "爍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to shine," "to glitter," or "to flash," often conveying the idea of bright, sparkling light. It is composed of the radical "火" (fire) and the phonetic component "樂," and in simplified Chinese, it is written as "烁." This character appears in classical and modern texts to describe dazzling brilliance, such as the sparkle of stars or the gleam of metal, and it is also used in compound words like "閃爍" (to flicker or twinkle).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+720D |
| 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 | 爍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 爍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x88 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x720D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000720D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u720d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C37B |
| kCCCII | 214A36 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7848 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7848 |
| kCangjie | FVID |
| kCantonese | soek3 |
| kCihaiT | 862.104 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1099.110 |
| kDefinition | shine, glitter, sparkle |
| kEACC | 214A36 |
| kFanqie | 書藥 |
| kFenn | 490I |
| kFennIndex | 470.11 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9289.4 |
| kGB1 | 4324 |
| kGSR | 1125n |
| kHangul | 삭:1N |
| kHanYu | 32245.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shuò(29) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32245.150:shuò,luò,yuè |
| kHKGlyph | 2444 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1099.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32245.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0686.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4B38 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C37B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6023 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-5640 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-635D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7848 |
| kJapanese | シャク ラク ヤク とかす |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOKASU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHAKU |
| kJis0 | 6403 |
| kKangXi | 0686.250 |
| kKorean | SAK |
| kMandarin | shuò |
| kMatthews | 5834 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1652a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016699 |
| kMorohashi | 19549 |
| kPhonetic | 972 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5596+86.4.15 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.15 |
| kSBGY | 502.07 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "烁" U+70C1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 405.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shuò粵soek3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3617 |
| kTang | shiɑk |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 257:244 |
| kXHC1983 | 1084.061:shuò |