U+726D "牭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+726D "牭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character found in classical texts, composed of the radical for "cow" or "ox" (牛) on the left and the phonetic component "四" (meaning four) on the right, though its exact historical usage and meaning remain somewhat obscure. It is believed to refer to a four-year-old ox or a type of sacrificial animal in archaic contexts, appearing sporadically in older dictionaries and canonical works such as the Shuowen Jiezi, which defines it as a term for livestock reaching the age of four. In modern Chinese and Japanese, this character is not commonly used, existing primarily as a historical or scholarly reference within the vast set of CJK unified ideographs.

General Properties

Code Point U+726D
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 牭
HTML Hex Encoding 牭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x89 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x726D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000726D
C/C++/Java Escape \u726d

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 225560
kCNS1986 E-2D6D
kCNS1992 3-2D6D
kCangjie HQWC
kCantonese sei3
kDaeJaweon 1112.070
kFanqie 息利
kGB3 4102
kHanYu 31807.060
kHanyuPinyin 31807.060:sì
kIRGDaeJaweon 1112.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31807.060
kIRGKangXi 0699.150
kIRG_GSource G3-4922
kIRG_JSource JMJ-016823
kIRG_KPSource KP1-56F5
kIRG_TSource T3-2D6D
kJapanese
kKangXi 0699.150
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ016823
kMorohashi 19972
kRSUnicode 93.5
kSBGY 354.33
kTotalStrokes 9