U+722F "爯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+722F "爯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character that historically conveys the meaning of "to lift" or "to raise," often encountered in classical texts or ancient inscriptions. It is composed of the radical for "claw" or "hand" (爫) over a component that may suggest grasping or elevating, reflecting its semantic link to lifting something upward. While not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese vocabulary, it remains a component in some scholarly contexts, particularly in the study of oracle bone script or pre-Qin literature, where it appears as a variant or predecessor of more common characters like 稱 (to call, to weigh).

General Properties

Code Point U+722F
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 爯
HTML Hex Encoding 爯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x88 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x722F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000722F
C/C++/Java Escape \u722f

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 225536
kCangjie BGB
kCantonese cing1
kCihaiT 863.302
kDaeJaweon 1102.070
kFanqie 處陵
kGB5 4674
kGSR 0894a
kHanYu 32032.050
kHanyuPinyin 32032.050:chēng,chèng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1102.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32032.050
kIRGKangXi 0689.030
kIRG_GSource G5-4E6A
kIRG_JSource J1-4A49
kIRG_KPSource KP1-5670
kIRG_KSource K2-4560
kIRG_TSource T4-2A2A
kJapanese ショウ
kJapaneseKun TONAHE AGERU
kJapaneseOn SHOU
kJis1 4241
kKangXi 0689.030
kMandarin chēng
kMojiJoho MJ016738 MJ016738:E0101 MJ058016:E0102
kMorohashi 19671 19671:E0101
kPhonetic 202
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21949+87.4.5
kRSUnicode 87.5
kSBGY 200.25
kTotalStrokes 9