U+72B8 "犸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+72B8 "犸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical 犭 (animal-related, usually denoting a beast) and the phonetic component 马 (meaning horse). It is primarily used in Mandarin Chinese, where it forms part of the word 猛犸 (měngmǎ), which translates to "mammoth" or specifically the extinct woolly mammoth. Consequently, this character is not commonly encountered in everyday modern Chinese outside of zoological or paleontological contexts, and its usage is largely confined to referring to that prehistoric creature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+72B8
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	犸
HTML Hex Encoding	犸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8A 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x72B8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000072B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u72b8

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	28575E
kCangjie	KHNVM
kCantonese	maa5
kDefinition	mammoth
kEACC	28575E
kFourCornerCode	4722
kGB0	6579
kHanYu	21333.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21333.150
kIRGKangXi	0706.171
kIRG_GSource	G0-616F
kTGH	2013:3618
kKangXi	0706.171
kMandarin	mǎ
kPhonetic	863*
kRSUnicode	94.3
kSMSZD2003Index	414.17
kTGHZ2013	240.120:mǎ
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"獁" U+7341 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G