U+722E "爮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+722E "爮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of gourd or calabash, specifically one that has been split or hollowed out for use as a ladle or container. Found in classical texts and historical lexicons, this character is not commonly used in modern Chinese but remains part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set for encoding historic and linguistic materials. Its component parts include the claw radical indicating scraping or scooping actions, reinforcing its association with the practical processing of gourds into utensils.

General Properties

Code Point	U+722E
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	爮
HTML Hex Encoding	爮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x88 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x722E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000722E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u722e

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	225538
kCNS1986	E-2D69
kCNS1992	3-2D69
kCangjie	HOPRU
kCantonese	paau4
kDaeJaweon	1102.060
kGB3	4423
kHanYu	32033.030
kHanyuPinyin	32033.030:páo
kIRGDaeJaweon	1102.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32033.030
kIRGKangXi	0689.020
kIRG_GSource	G3-4C37
kIRG_HSource	H-FE47
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-016737
kIRG_TSource	T3-2D69
kJapanese	ホウ ビョウ
kKangXi	0689.020
kMandarin	páo
kMojiJoho	MJ016737
kMorohashi	19670
kRSUnicode	87.5
kTaiwanTelegraph	3631
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	312:111