U+72AC "犬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
犬
U+72AC "犬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing the Chinese character for "dog," which is also used in Japanese and Korean as part of the shared CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) script. This character dates back to ancient oracle bone script, where it was pictographically derived from a side view of a canine, featuring a curved body, tail, and legs. In modern usage, "犬" appears both as an independent word meaning "dog" and as a radical or component in other characters, such as in "吠" (bark) or "狩" (hunt), where it conveys meanings related to dogs or canine behavior. Its Unicode classification places it in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, ensuring consistent digital representation across East Asian languages and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72AC |
| 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 | 犬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 犬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8A 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72ac |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4FC |
| kCCCII | 214A63 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-455D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-455D |
| kCangjie | IK |
| kCantonese | hyun2 |
| kCihaiT | 873.105 |
| kCowles | 1206 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1118.140 |
| kDefinition | dog; radical number 94 |
| kEACC | 214A63 |
| kFanqie | 苦泫 |
| kFenn | 456F |
| kFennIndex | 119.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4303.0 |
| kGB0 | 4014 |
| kGB1 | 4014 |
| kGSR | 0479a |
| kHangul | 견:0E |
| kHanYu | 21331.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | quǎn(12) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21331.010:quǎn |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⽝[U+2F5D]:21331.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 2490 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1118.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21331.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0705.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-482E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4FC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3824 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CEF5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4C33 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-455D |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8D72 |
| kJapanese | ケン いぬ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:92 |
| kJapaneseKun | INU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN |
| kJis0 | 2404 |
| kKangXi | 0705.270 |
| kKarlgren | 498 |
| kKorean | KYEN |
| kLau | 1243 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3689 |
| kMandarin | quǎn |
| kMatthews | 1650 |
| kMeyerWempe | 811 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016884 |
| kMorohashi | 20234 |
| kNelson | 2868 |
| kPhonetic | 512 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1880+94.4.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 94.0 |
| kSBGY | 290.15 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+72AD<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 414.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | quǎn粵hyun2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3689 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 310.100:quǎn |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 253:103 |
| kXHC1983 | 0950.020:quǎn |