U+72BC "犼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
犼
U+72BC "犼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a relatively rare Chinese character that primarily refers to a mythical beast in Chinese folklore, often described as a type of lion-like or dog-like creature with supernatural attributes, occasionally serving as a guardian figure or an emissary of heaven. In ancient texts, the hǒu (犼) is sometimes depicted as a ferocious animal that preys on dragons or appears in funerary contexts as a stone statue placed before tombs to ward off evil spirits. Its radical is the "dog" or "beast" radical (犭), and it is distinct from more common characters due to its specialized mythological usage, making it an interesting subject within the broader corpus of CJK ideographs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72BC |
| 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 | 犼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 犼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8A 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72bc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 225656 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2667 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2667 |
| kCangjie | KHNDU |
| kCantonese | hau3 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1119.220 |
| kDefinition | a fierce Mongolian wolf dragon's head on roofs |
| kEACC | 225656 |
| kGB5 | 3854 |
| kHanYu | 21338.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21338.020:hǒu |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1119.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21338.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0707.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-4656 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-016903 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-579B |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4646 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2667 |
| kJapanese | コウ ク |
| kKangXi | 0707.050 |
| kMandarin | hǒu |
| kMatthews | 2149 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016903 |
| kMorohashi | 20271 |
| kRSUnicode | 94.4 |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |