U+72EA "狪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
狪
U+72EA "狪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that is composed of the radical for "dog" or "animal" (犭) on the left and the phonetic component "同" (tóng) on the right, suggesting a pronunciation related to tóng or dòng in Mandarin. In classical Chinese texts, the character "狪" has been recorded with meanings associated with a type of wild animal or beast, specifically a creature described in ancient dictionaries like the Erya, where it refers to a legendary beast said to have a human face and a pig's bristles. While it is not commonly encountered in modern Chinese writing or everyday vocabulary, this character appears occasionally in historical or mythological contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72EA |
| 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 | 狪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 狪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8B 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72ea |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CFC3 |
| kCCCII | 225677 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2C25 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2C25 |
| kCangjie | KHBMR |
| kCantonese | tung4 |
| kCihaiT | 875.503 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1123.050 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4722.0 |
| kGB3 | 3611 |
| kHanYu | 21344.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21344.070:tóng,dòng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1123.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21344.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0711.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-442B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CFC3 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-016950 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-465F |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2C25 |
| kJapanese | トウ ツ |
| kKangXi | 0711.050 |
| kMandarin | tóng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016950 |
| kMorohashi | 20391 |
| kPhonetic | 1407* |
| kRSUnicode | 94.6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |