U+720F "爏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+720F "爏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that combines the fire radical (火 or 灬) with a phonetic component, typically pronounced "lì" or "luò" in modern Mandarin. Its traditional meaning relates to burning or blazing fire, often conveying the imagery of flames spreading or intense heat, though it is not commonly found in everyday vocabulary or classical literature. This obscure character is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese phonology, paleography, or those studying obscure Kangxi radicals, as it appears in only a few ancient texts and specialized dictionaries.

General Properties

Code Point	U+720F
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	爏
HTML Hex Encoding	爏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x88 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x720F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000720F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u720f

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	22546B
kCNS1986	E-5C56
kCNS1992	3-5C56
kCangjie	FMDM
kCantonese	lik6
kDaeJaweon	1099.160
kGB5	4922
kHanYu	32246.230
kHanyuPinyin	32246.230:lì
kIRGDaeJaweon	1099.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32246.230
kIRGKangXi	0686.300
kIRG_GSource	G5-5136
kIRG_HSource	H-92DC
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-016700
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5649
kIRG_TSource	T3-5C56
kJapanese	レキ リャク
kKangXi	0686.300
kMandarin	lì
kMojiJoho	MJ016700
kMorohashi	19565
kRSUnicode	86.16
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	H