U+72EE "狮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+72EE "狮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a lion, a powerful and majestic animal often associated with royalty, protection, and strength in East Asian cultures. It is composed of the radical 犭, which signifies an animal or beast, and the phonetic component 师, which suggests its pronunciation in Mandarin as "shī." This character is commonly found in words such as "狮子" (lion) and appears in cultural contexts like lion dances, guardian lion statues, and idioms that evoke bravery or authority.

General Properties

Code Point	U+72EE
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	狮
HTML Hex Encoding	狮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8B 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x72EE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000072EE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u72ee

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	274B23
kCangjie	KHLLB
kCantonese	si1
kDefinition	lion
kEACC	274B23
kFourCornerCode	4122
kGB0	4208
kHanYu	21344.020
kHanyuPinlu	shī(21)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21344.020
kIRGKangXi	0711.101
kIRG_GSource	G0-4A28
kTGH	2013:1601
kKangXi	0711.101
kMainlandTelegraph	3740
kMandarin	shī
kRSUnicode	94.6
kSMSZD2003Index	416.17
kTGHZ2013	334.070:shī
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"獅" U+7345 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1032.060:shī