U+72CC "狌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+72CC "狌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) with a rich historical and zoological context. Pronounced "shēng" in modern Mandarin, it classically refers to a type of weasel or ferret-like animal, often specifically the yellow weasel mentioned in ancient texts such as the Erya and Shan Hai Jing. Additionally, in some classical usages, the character stands as an archaic or variant form of the character for "star" (xīng), though this connotation is less common today. The character is built from the radical 犭 (dog or animal) and the phonetic component 生 (shēng, meaning life or birth), reflecting its animal association. While rarely used in contemporary simplified or traditional Chinese, it appears in historical literature, poetry, and zoological references, making it a specialized but meaningful part of the CJK Unified Ideograph collection.

General Properties

Code Point	U+72CC
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	狌
HTML Hex Encoding	狌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8B 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x72CC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000072CC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u72cc

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	CD64
kCCCII	22566C
kCNS1986	2-2826
kCNS1992	2-2826
kCangjie	KHHQM
kCantonese	sing1
kCihaiT	875.402
kDaeJaweon	1121.030
kDefinition	livestock
kEACC	22566C
kFanqie	所庚
kFourCornerCode	4521.0
kGB3	3593
kGSR	0812t
kHanYu	21340.070
kHanyuPinyin	21340.070:shēng,xīng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1121.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21340.070
kIRGKangXi	0708.200
kIRG_GSource	G3-437D
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CD64
kIRG_JSource	J14-7040
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-57B0
kIRG_KSource	K2-4650
kIRG_TSource	T2-2826
kJapanese	ソウ ショウ セイ
kJIS0213	2,80,32
kJapaneseKun	SHIYOUJIYOU
kJapaneseOn	SEI SHOU
kJis1	4285
kKangXi	0708.200
kMandarin	shēng
kMojiJoho	MJ016919
kMorohashi	20324
kPhonetic	1130
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18060+94.3.5 C+18060+100.5.3
kRSUnicode	94.5
kSBGY	187.05
kSMSZD2003Index	412.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	shēng粵sang1,saang1
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	HMT