U+72D0 "狐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

狐

U+72D0 "狐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "fox," representing the cunning, swift animal commonly featured in East Asian folklore and literature. As a logogram used in written Chinese, Japanese (as a kanji), and Korean (as a hanja), it combines the radical for "dog" or "animal" (犭) with the phonetic component "瓜," reflecting its composition as a pictophonetic character. In cultural contexts, "狐" is deeply symbolic, often associated with intelligence, mystery, and transformation, most notably in stories of the nine-tailed fox (huli jing in Chinese or kitsune in Japanese) that can shapeshift and possess supernatural powers. The character frequently appears in idioms and phrases, such as "狐假虎威" meaning "borrowing a fox's might from a tiger's terror," which illustrates reliance on others' power.

General Properties

Code Point	U+72D0
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	狐
HTML Hex Encoding	狐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8B 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x72D0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000072D0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u72d0

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	AAB0
kCCCII	214A6B
kCNS1986	1-4E71
kCNS1992	1-4E71
kCangjie	KHHVO
kCantonese	wu4
kCihaiT	875.202
kCowles	3119
kDaeJaweon	1121.120
kDefinition	fox
kEACC	214A6B
kFanqie	戶吳
kFenn	407D
kFennIndex	199.02
kFourCornerCode	4223.0
kGB0	2692
kGB1	2692
kGradeLevel	3
kGSR	0041i
kHangul	호:0N
kHanYu	21340.140
kHanyuPinlu	hú(18)
kHanyuPinyin	21340.140:hú
kHKGlyph	2498
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1121.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21340.140
kIRGKangXi	0708.290
kIRG_GSource	G0-3A7C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-AAB0
kIRG_JSource	J0-3851
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F4AA
kIRG_KSource	K0-7B4F
kIRG_TSource	T1-4E71
kIRG_VSource	V1-5E67
kJapanese	コゴきつね
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:1196
kJapaneseKun	KITSUNE
kJapaneseOn	KO
kJis0	2449
kKangXi	0708.290
kKarlgren	432
kKorean	HO
kLau	3279
kMainlandTelegraph	3698
kMandarin	hú
kMatthews	2185
kMeyerWempe	2163
kMojiJoho	MJ016925 MJ016925:E0101 MJ016923:E0102 MJ016924:E0103
kMorohashi	20333:E0102
kNelson	2878
kPhonetic	696
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1925+94.3.6 C+1925+97.6.3
kRSUnicode	94.5
kSBGY	081.10
kSMSZD2003Index	415.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	hú粵wu4
kTaiwanTelegraph	3698
kTang	*ho
kTGHZ2013	140.110:hú
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	hồ
kXerox	247:157
kXHC1983	0474.130:hú