U+72FA "狺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+72FA "狺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "barking" or "yelping," especially in reference to a dog's angry or aggressive sound. It is composed of the radical 犭 (quǎn) meaning "dog" or "beast," and the phonetic component 言 (yán) meaning "speech" or "words," visually suggesting a dog making noise or howling. In classical Chinese literature, this character often appears in descriptions of ferocious or agitated barking, and it is sometimes used metaphorically to convey harsh or quarrelsome speech.

General Properties

Code Point U+72FA
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 狺
HTML Hex Encoding 狺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x8B 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x72FA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000072FA
C/C++/Java Escape \u72fa

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

kBigFive D2A4
kCCCII 22567E
kCNS1986 2-3065
kCNS1992 2-3065
kCangjie KHYMR
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kCihaiT 876.502
kDaeJaweon 1124.010
kDefinition the snarling of dogs
kEACC 22567E
kFanqie 語巾 語斤
kFourCornerCode 4026.1
kGB0 6594
kGB1 6594
kGSR 0251g
kHangul 은:1N
kHanYu 21350.040
kHanyuPinyin 21350.040:yín
kIRGDaeJaweon 1124.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21350.040
kIRGKangXi 0711.320
kIRG_GSource G0-617E
kIRG_HSource HB2-D2A4
kIRG_JSource J14-7044
kIRG_KPSource KP1-57EC
kIRG_KSource K1-6A35
kIRG_TSource T2-3065
kIRG_VSource V3-3425
kJapanese ギン ゴン
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:4605
kJIS0213 2,80,36
kJapaneseOn GEN GON
kJis1 4293
kKangXi 0711.320
kKorean UN
kMainlandTelegraph 3711
kMandarin yín
kMatthews 7436
kMeyerWempe 2040c
kMojiJoho MJ016961
kMorohashi 20430
kPhonetic 1575
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18064+94.3.7 C+18064+149.7.3
kRSUnicode 94.7
kSBGY 105.13 112.47
kSMSZD2003Index 417.06
kSMSZD2003Readings yín粵ngan4
kTaiwanTelegraph 3711
kTGHZ2013 437.130:yín
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 GHMT
kXerox 300:076
kXHC1983 1378.050:yín