U+72DC "狜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
狜
U+72DC "狜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that primarily appears in classical texts, where it is understood to denote the name of a type of small or minor animal, often interpreted as a kind of dog or beast, though its exact usage remains obscure and largely archaic. This character belongs to the radical 犬 (dog), indicating its semantic association with canine creatures, and it is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing, making it of interest primarily to historical linguistics and paleography for studying ancient script variants and lost vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72DC |
| 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 | 狜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 狜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8B 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72dc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CD60 |
| kCCCII | 225665 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2822 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2822 |
| kCangjie | KHJR |
| kCantonese | gu2 |
| kCihaiT | 875.406 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1122.060 |
| kDefinition | mother cattle |
| kFourCornerCode | 4426.0 |
| kHanYu | 21339.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21339.020:kǔ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1122.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21339.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0709.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4177 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CD60 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-016937 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4659 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2822 |
| kJapanese | コ |
| kKangXi | 0709.181 |
| kMandarin | kǔ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016937 |
| kMorohashi | 20360 |
| kPhonetic | 753 |
| kRSUnicode | 94.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 412.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gǔ粵gu2 |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |