U+72F9 "狹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
狹
U+72F9 "狹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used in both classical and modern contexts, primarily meaning "narrow" or "confined," often describing physical spaces, passages, or situations of limited breadth. It is composed of the radical "犭" (dog) on the left and the phonetic component "夾" on the right, reflecting its historical formation as a pictophonetic character. In modern usage, it is more commonly seen in traditional Chinese script, while its simplified counterpart is "狭," and it appears in vocabulary such as "狹窄" (narrow) and "狹小" (cramped).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+72F9 |
| 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 | 狹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 狹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8B 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x72F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000072F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u72f9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AF55 |
| kCCCII | 214A70 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5658 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5658 |
| kCangjie | KHKOO |
| kCantonese | haap6 |
| kCihaiT | 876.501 |
| kCowles | 944 1692 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1123.280 |
| kDefinition | narrow, limited; narrow-minded; to pinch |
| kEACC | 214A70 |
| kFanqie | 侯夾 |
| kFenn | 455E |
| kFennIndex | 164.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4423.8 |
| kGB1 | 4733 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0630e |
| kHangul | 협:0N |
| kHanYu | 21348.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xiá(31) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21348.040:xiá |
| kHKGlyph | 2503 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1123.280 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21348.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0711.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4F41 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AF55 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6045 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F3D9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A75 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5658 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5E6A |
| kJapanese | コウ ギョウ キョウ せまい |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010:U+72ED |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SEMAI SEBAMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU KOU |
| kJis0 | 6437 |
| kKangXi | 0711.300 |
| kKarlgren | 345 |
| kKorean | HYEP |
| kLau | 926 927 1105 |
| kMandarin | xiá |
| kMatthews | 2532 |
| kMeyerWempe | 639 1175 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016960 |
| kMorohashi | 20428 |
| kNelson | 2882 |
| kPhonetic | 550 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5630+94.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 94.7 |
| kSBGY | 542.64 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+965C<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "狭" U+72ED CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 417.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiá粵haap6,haap3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3707 |
| kTang | hæp |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hẹp |
| kXerox | 255:323 |
| kXHC1983 | 1238.081:xiá |