U+72A7 "犧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
犧
U+72A7 "犧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "sacrifice" or "to offer a sacrifice," often referring to a ritual offering of animals in ancient ceremonies. It is composed of the radical for "cow" or "ox" on the left side, indicating its connection to livestock, and a phonetic component on the right. In modern usage, this character appears in contexts related to religious rites, historical texts, and certain compound words such as "犧牲" which translates to "sacrifice" or "victim" in both literal and figurative senses. While it remains in use in Traditional Chinese, its simplified counterpart is "牺."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72A7 |
| 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 | 犧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 犧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8A 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72a7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4EB |
| kCCCII | 214A62 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A76 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A76 |
| kCangjie | HQTGS |
| kCantonese | hei1 |
| kCihaiT | 872.506 |
| kCowles | 1027 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1117.350 |
| kDefinition | sacrifice, give up; sacrificial |
| kEACC | 214A62 |
| kFanqie | 許羈 |
| kFenn | 217E |
| kFennIndex | 159.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2855.3 |
| kGB1 | 4694 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0002z |
| kHangul | 희:0N |
| kHanYu | 31822.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xī(103) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31822.040:xī,suō |
| kHKGlyph | 2489 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1117.350 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31822.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0705.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4E7E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4EB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-603A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F6AE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7D7A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A76 |
| kJapanese | キ ギ サ いけにえ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | IKENIE |
| kJapaneseOn | GI KI |
| kJis0 | 6426 |
| kKangXi | 0705.090 |
| kKarlgren | 132 |
| kKorean | HUY SA |
| kLau | 1154 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kMatthews | 2433 |
| kMeyerWempe | 693 694k |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016879 |
| kMorohashi | 20209 |
| kNelson | 2865 2867 |
| kPhonetic | 453 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5619+93.4.16 |
| kRSUnicode | 93.16 |
| kSBGY | 044.29 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "牺" U+727A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 414.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xī粵hei1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3686 |
| kTang | xyɛ |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 252:273 |
| kXHC1983 | 1228.061:xī |