U+72BA "犺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+72BA "犺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a relatively rare Chinese character that historically referred to a kind of dog, often described as a fierce or powerful beast, and it has also been used in the context of names or classical texts such as the "Erya" dictionary, where it is associated with a type of animal from the region of Western Qiang. This character features the radical "犭" (dog) on the left, indicating its relation to canines, and the phonetic component "亢" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation (kàng in Mandarin). While not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, it serves as a point of interest for linguists and those studying historical Chinese vocabulary or script variations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+72BA
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	犺
HTML Hex Encoding	犺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8A 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x72BA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000072BA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u72ba

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	CB66
kCCCII	225654
kCNS1986	2-2466
kCNS1992	2-2466
kCangjie	KHYHN
kCantonese	kong3
kCihaiT	873.502
kDaeJaweon	1119.140
kDefinition	animal
kFanqie	苦浪
kFourCornerCode	4021.7
kGB3	3584
kHanYu	21336.220
kHanyuPinyin	21336.220:kàng,gǎng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1119.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21336.220
kIRGKangXi	0706.210
kIRG_GSource	G3-4374
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CB66
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-016901
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-578E
kIRG_KSource	K2-4645
kIRG_TSource	T2-2466
kJapanese	コウ
kKangXi	0706.210
kMandarin	kàng
kMojiJoho	MJ016901
kMorohashi	20261
kPhonetic	660*
kRSUnicode	94.4
kSBGY	428.08
kTaiwanTelegraph	8732
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	312:120