U+72CA "狊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+72CA "狊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in written Chinese, carrying the meaning of "to gaze," "to look with wide eyes," or "to stare intently." This character is composed of the radical for dog (犬) combined with the phonetic component 目 (eye), visually suggesting an animal or person focusing their gaze. Historically less common in modern usage, it appears in classical texts and is sometimes referenced in compound terms related to sharp or fixed looking.

General Properties

Code Point U+72CA
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 狊
HTML Hex Encoding 狊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x8B 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x72CA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000072CA
C/C++/Java Escape \u72ca

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 CFBE
kCCCII 22566B
kCNS1986 2-2B7E
kCNS1992 2-2B7E
kCangjie BUIK
kCantonese gwik1
kCihaiT 874.501
kDaeJaweon 1121.010
kFanqie 古闃 呼狊
kFourCornerCode 6043.3
kGB3 5713
kGSR 0860a
kHanYu 21338.050
kHanyuPinyin 21338.050:jú
kIRGDaeJaweon 1121.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21338.050
kIRGKangXi 0708.160
kIRG_GSource G3-592D
kIRG_HSource HB2-CFBE
kIRG_JSource JMJ-016916
kIRG_KPSource KP1-57A4
kIRG_KSource K2-464E
kIRG_TSource T2-2B7E
kJapanese グ そなえる
kKangXi 0708.160
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ016916 MJ016916:E0100 MJ016917:E0101
kMorohashi 20320:E0101
kPhonetic 738
kRSUnicode 94.5
kSBGY 523.52 524.24
kTotalStrokes 9
kUnihanCore2020 HMT