U+72DB "狛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
狛
U+72DB "狛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese and Japanese character that historically refers to a mythical beast resembling a dog or a lion, often depicted as a guardian creature in East Asian folklore. In modern contexts, it is used in written languages to represent this specific concept, with its form composed of the radical for "dog" or "animal" on the left and a phonetic component on the right, though its usage is less common in everyday contemporary text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72DB |
| 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 | 狛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 狛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8B 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72db |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 22566E |
| kCNS1986 | E-2A28 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2A28 |
| kCangjie | KHHA |
| kCantonese | baak3 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1122.040 |
| kDefinition | lion-dog shrine guardians |
| kEACC | 22566E |
| kFourCornerCode | 4620.0 |
| kGB3 | 3594 |
| kHanYu | 21340.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21340.130:bó |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1122.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21340.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0709.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-437E |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-397D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-57AA |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4658 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2A28 |
| kJapanese | ハ ハク ヘキ ビャク ヒャク ベ こま |
| kJapaneseKun | KOMA |
| kJapaneseOn | HAKU |
| kJis0 | 2593 |
| kKangXi | 0709.160 |
| kMandarin | bó |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016936 |
| kMorohashi | 20349 |
| kNelson | 2876 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2063+94.3.5 C+2063+106.5.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 94.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |