U+729E "犞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+729E "犞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that appears in historical and classical texts, though it is not commonly used in modern Mandarin. It is formed from the radical 牛 (cow or ox), suggesting a connection to cattle, combined with the phonetic component 喬 (qiao), which gives a clue to its pronunciation. The character can be found in older dictionaries and specialized contexts, where it may denote a specific type of ox or a related concept, but its exact meaning is obscure and often cited as variant or archaic. Its Unicode inclusion preserves this historical glyph for digital use, though it lacks widespread recognition in contemporary writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+729E
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 犞
HTML Hex Encoding 犞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x8A 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x729E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000729E
C/C++/Java Escape \u729e

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

kBigFive EA5A
kCCCII 24573D
kCNS1986 2-5846
kCNS1992 2-5846
kCangjie HQHKB
kCantonese kiu4
kFourCornerCode 2252.7
kHanYu 31820.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 31820.020
kIRGKangXi 0704.210
kIRG_GSource GE-4170
kIRG_HSource HB2-EA5A
kIRG_JSource JMJ-016871
kIRG_KSource K2-4635
kIRG_TSource T2-5846
kKangXi 0704.210
kMandarin qiáo
kMojiJoho MJ016871
kMorohashi 20175
kRSUnicode 93.12
kSimplifiedVariant "𪺭" U+2AEAD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HMT