U+725C "牜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+725C "牜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a radical component used in the Chinese writing system, serving as the left-side form of the character "牛" which means "cow" or "ox." It appears in a variety of compound characters related to cattle, livestock, or animal traits, such as "牡" (male animal) and "特" (special or bull), and is classified under the Kangxi radical number 93 for "ox." In modern usage, this glyph is primarily encountered as a structural element in traditional and simplified Chinese, Korean, and Japanese kanji, but it is rarely used as an independent word or character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+725C
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	牜
HTML Hex Encoding	牜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x89 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x725C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000725C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u725c

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	HQ
kCantonese	ngau4
kDefinition	an ox, a cow Radical 93
kHanYu	31800.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	31800.011
kIRGKangXi	0697.011
kIRG_GSource	GE-4167
kIRG_HSource	H-8DBF
kIRG_JSource	J1-4A58
kJapanese	うしへん
kJapaneseKun	USHIHEN
kJis1	4256
kKangXi	0697.011
kMandarin	niú
kMatthews	4737
kMojiJoho	MJ016807
kMorohashi	19923
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14778+93.4.0
kRSUnicode	93.0
kSemanticVariant	U+725B<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	4
kUnihanCore2020	H