U+72C8 "狈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
狈
U+72C8 "狈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of small, wolf-like animal, often translated as a "jackal" or "dhole" in English, and it is commonly associated with the mythical creature known as the "fenghuang" or as a component in the word "langbei" (狼狈), which describes someone in a desperate or awkward predicament, akin to being caught in a tight spot. This character is part of the Kangxi radical 94 (犬 or 犭, meaning "dog") and is used in modern Chinese to form compounds that convey a sense of hardship or conspiring together in a negative context, such as in the idiom "狼狈为奸" meaning to collude in wrongdoing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72C8 |
| 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 | 狈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 狈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8B 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72c8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274A72 |
| kCangjie | KHBO |
| kCantonese | bui3 |
| kDefinition | a legendary animal with short forelegs which rode a wolf |
| kEACC | 274A72 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4728 |
| kGB0 | 1723 |
| kHanYu | 21336.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bèi(13) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21336.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0708.021 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3137 |
| kTGH | 2013:813 |
| kKangXi | 0708.021 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3709 |
| kMandarin | bèi |
| kRSUnicode | 94.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 415.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 014.090:bèi |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "狽" U+72FD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0049.010:bèi |