U+72ED "狭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

狭

U+72ED "狭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning narrow, cramped, or confined in both physical and metaphorical senses. It is composed of the radical for dog or beast on the left, which suggests a connection to animals or wildness, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation as "xiá" in Mandarin. This character appears in compounds like "狭小" meaning narrow and small, and "狭路相逢" describing a confrontation on a narrow path, reflecting its use in spatial, abstract, and idiomatic contexts. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it maintains similar meanings and plays a role in expressing concepts of limitation or tightness in various cultural settings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+72ED
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	狭
HTML Hex Encoding	狭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8B 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x72ED
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000072ED
C/C++/Java Escape	\u72ed

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	274A70
kCNS1986	E-2D71
kCNS1992	3-2D71
kCangjie	KHKT
kCantonese	haap6
kDaeJaweon	1123.100
kDefinition	narrow, limited; narrow-minded
kEACC	274A70
kFourCornerCode	4523.0
kGB0	4733
kHanYu	21343.100
kHanyuPinlu	xiá(31)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1123.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21343.100
kIRGKangXi	0711.101
kIRG_GSource	G0-4F41
kIRG_JSource	J0-3639
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-57CD
kIRG_KSource	K2-4662
kIRG_TSource	T3-2D71
kJapanese	キョウコウせまいせばめるせばまるさ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:1600
kJapaneseKun	SEMAI SEBAMERU SA
kJapaneseOn	KYOU
kJis0	2225
kKangXi	0711.101
kMainlandTelegraph	3707
kMandarin	xiá
kMojiJoho	MJ016953
kMorohashi	20406'
kNelson	2882
kPhonetic	550*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1713+94.3.6
kRSUnicode	94.6
kSMSZD2003Index	416.15
kTGHZ2013	396.040:xiá
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"狹" U+72F9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GJ
kXHC1983	1238.080:xiá