U+721A "爚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+721A "爚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that falls under the radical for fire (火, commonly appearing on the left as 火 or 灬) and historically relates to the concept of shining, blazing, or emitting a brilliant light, often associated with the imagery of flames or intense brightness. In classical Chinese texts, it can denote a shimmering or flickering glow, and while it is not a frequently used character in modern standard Chinese, it remains a part of the literary and historical lexicon, particularly in poetic or descriptive contexts where vivid illumination is described. Its phonetic component derives from the character 龠, which contributes to its pronunciation, and it is classified as a unified ideograph within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) block, ensuring compatibility across East Asian digital text systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+721A
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	爚
HTML Hex Encoding	爚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x88 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x721A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000721A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u721a

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	F5DB
kCCCII	225479
kCNS1986	2-6B69
kCNS1992	2-6B69
kCangjie	FOMB
kCantonese	joek6
kCihaiT	862.204
kDaeJaweon	1099.110
kDefinition	bright; fiery
kEACC	225479
kFanqie	以灼 書藥
kFourCornerCode	9882.7
kGB5	5052
kGSR	1119f
kHangul	약:1N
kHanYu	32248.080
kHanyuPinyin	32248.080:yuè
kIRGDaeJaweon	1099.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32248.080
kIRGKangXi	0687.240
kIRG_GSource	G5-5254
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F5DB
kIRG_JSource	J1-4A44
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-565A
kIRG_KSource	K1-6671
kIRG_TSource	T2-6B69
kJapanese	ヤク シャク ひかる
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:8086
kJapaneseOn	YAKU SHAKU
kJis1	4236
kKangXi	0687.240
kKorean	YAK
kMandarin	yuè
kMojiJoho	MJ016711
kMorohashi	19603
kPhonetic	1527
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21947+86.4.17 C+21947+214.17.4
kRSUnicode	86.17
kSBGY	501.11 502.11
kSMSZD2003Index	406.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	yuè粵joek6
kTaiwanTelegraph	3621
kTGHZ2013	453.190:yuè
kTotalStrokes	21
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	304:173
kXHC1983	1428.100:yuè