U+72EC "独" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

独

U+72EC "独" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "alone," "only," "single," or "independent," and it is also used as a suffix to mean "alone" or "by oneself" in various compounds. Originating as a simplified form derived from the traditional character 獨, this logograph combines the radical for "dog" or "beast" (犭) on the left, which hints at the primitive concept of solitary animals, with a phonetic component on the right. In modern Chinese and Japanese (where it is also commonly used as a kanji pronounced "doku" or "hitori"), it appears in words such as 独自 (dúzì, meaning "independent" or "on one's own") and 独裁 (dúcái, meaning "dictatorship" or "autocracy"), reflecting its cultural significance in discussions of isolation, individuality, and singular authority. Its usage extends across legal, literary, and everyday contexts, making it a versatile and frequently encountered character in East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+72EC
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	独
HTML Hex Encoding	独
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8B 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x72EC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000072EC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u72ec

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

kCCCII	274B27
kCNS1986	E-2D73
kCNS1992	3-2D73
kCangjie	KHLMI
kCantonese	duk6
kCihaiT	876.102
kDaeJaweon	1123.090
kDefinition	alone, single, solitary, only
kEACC	274B27
kFennIndex	567.02
kFourCornerCode	4523.6
kGB0	2232
kHanYu	21344.060
kHanyuPinlu	dú(264)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1123.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21344.060
kIRGKangXi	0711.101
kIRG_GSource	G0-3640
kIRG_JSource	J0-4648
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-57C3
kIRG_KSource	K2-4661
kIRG_TSource	T3-2D73
kIRG_VSource	V2-7C3F
kJapanese	ドクトクひとり
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:1602
kJapaneseKun	HITORI
kJapaneseOn	DOKU
kJis0	3840
kKangXi	0711.101
kKorean	TOK
kMainlandTelegraph	3747
kMandarin	dú
kMojiJoho	MJ016952
kMorohashi	20406
kNelson	2884
kPhonetic	1264
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3232+94.3.6 C+3232+142.6.3
kRSUnicode	94.6
kSemanticVariant	U+7368<kFenn
kSimplifiedVariant	"独" U+72EC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	416.14
kTGHZ2013	080.120:dú
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"独" U+72EC CJK Unified Ideograph-# "獨" U+7368 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GJ
kXHC1983	0267.080:dú