U+722B "爫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+722B "爫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese radical and character component known as the "claw" radical, often appearing at the top of complex characters as a semantic or form element. It depicts a downward-reaching hand or claw, and is commonly used in characters related to actions like grasping, plucking, or climbing, such as in 采 (to pick) or 受 (to receive). In Unicode's CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is encoded as a distinct character used historically and in modern East Asian scripts for writing and lexicography.

General Properties

Code Point U+722B
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 爫
HTML Hex Encoding 爫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x88 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x722B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000722B
C/C++/Java Escape \u722b

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

kCangjie XB
kCantonese zaau2
kDaeJaweon 1101.140
kDefinition radical 87
kHanYu 32030.021
kIRGDaeJaweon 1101.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32030.021
kIRGKangXi 0688.281
kIRG_GSource GE-4159
kIRG_HSource H-8BD3
kIRG_JSource J14-702A
kIRG_KSource K2-455F
kIRG_TSource T4-2151
kIRG_VSource VN-0722B
kJapanese つめかんむり
kJIS0213 2,80,10
kJapaneseKun TSUMEKANMURI TSUMEGASHIRA
kJis1 4240
kKangXi 0688.281
kLau 1307
kMandarin zhǎo
kMatthews 240
kMojiJoho MJ016734 MJ030270:FE00 MJ030270:E0102 MJ016734:E0103
kMorohashi 19655 19655:E0103
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+14772+87.4.0
kRSUnicode 87.0
kSemanticVariant U+355A<kMatthews U+722A<kLau,kMatthews
kTotalStrokes 4
kUnihanCore2020 H
kVietnamese trảo