U+727A "牺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+727A "牺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the concept of sacrifice or offering, often specifically referring to livestock or animals used in ritual sacrifices in ancient Chinese culture. It is composed of the radical for cow or ox on the left side, indicating its connection to animals, and a phonetic component on the right. This character appears in classical texts and modern Chinese as part of compound words like "牺牲" (xīshēng), which means "to sacrifice" or "victim," and carries connotations of devotion, loss, or giving up something valuable for a greater purpose.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+727A |
| 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 | 牺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 牺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x89 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x727A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000727A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u727a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274A62 |
| kCNS1986 | E-3236 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3236 |
| kCangjie | HQMCW |
| kCantonese | hei1 |
| kDefinition | sacrifice, give up; sacrificial |
| kEACC | 274A62 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2156 |
| kGB0 | 4694 |
| kHanYu | 31809.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xī(103) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31809.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0700.221 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E7E |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3236 |
| kTGH | 2013:1939 |
| kKangXi | 0700.221 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3686 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kPhonetic | 453 1112 |
| kRSUnicode | 93.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 412.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 391.170:xī |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "犧" U+72A7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1228.060:xī |