U+72E4 "狤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

狤

U+72E4 "狤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for dog or beast on the left and the phonetic component "吉" on the right, and it is generally considered a rare or obsolete character in modern standard Chinese. Its traditional meaning is associated with a type of dog or a fierce beast, as documented in classical Chinese dictionaries like the Kangxi Zidian, where it is defined as a mad or reckless dog. In contemporary usage, this character appears primarily in historical or specialized linguistic contexts, such as in transcriptions of ancient texts or in studies of archaic Chinese vocabulary, and it is not commonly encountered in everyday writing or communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+72E4
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	狤
HTML Hex Encoding	狤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8B 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x72E4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000072E4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u72e4

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

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kCNS1992	2-2C21
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kHanyuPinyin	21343.020:jí,jié,kuài
kIRGDaeJaweon	1122.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21343.020
kIRGKangXi	0710.170
kIRG_GSource	G3-4426
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CFBF
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-016944
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-57C1
kIRG_KSource	K2-465D
kIRG_TSource	T2-2C21
kJapanese	キツキチケツケチカイケ
kKangXi	0710.170
kMandarin	jí
kMojiJoho	MJ016944
kMorohashi	20374
kPhonetic	582*
kRSUnicode	94.6
kSBGY	469.11 471.29 491.55
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	HMT