U+72FF "狿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+72FF "狿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a character from the set of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs, representing a rare or archaic term that appears in classical texts. Its meaning is generally associated with a mythical beast or a type of animal, often described in ancient Chinese lexicons as a creature resembling a fox or a wild dog, sometimes linked to legends about a long-tailed canine or a beast that preys on other animals. The character is composed of the radical 犬 (dog) on the left, indicating its connection to animals, and the phonetic component 延 on the right, which suggests its pronunciation in Middle Chinese. While not commonly used in modern writing, it occasionally surfaces in scholarly discussions of mythology, paleography, or historical literature.

General Properties

Code Point U+72FF
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 狿
HTML Hex Encoding 狿
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x8B 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x72FF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000072FF
C/C++/Java Escape \u72ff

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 D667
kCCCII 225741
kCNS1986 2-372C
kCNS1992 2-372C
kCangjie KHNKM
kCantonese jin4
kCihaiT 876.505
kDaeJaweon 1124.060
kFanqie 以然 于線
kFourCornerCode 4224.1
kGB3 3615
kHanYu 21344.150
kHanyuPinyin 21344.150:yán
kIRGDaeJaweon 1124.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21344.150
kIRGKangXi 0712.050
kIRG_GSource G3-442F
kIRG_HSource HB2-D667
kIRG_JSource JMJ-016967
kIRG_KPSource KP1-57EA
kIRG_KSource K2-4667
kIRG_TSource T2-372C
kJapanese エン テン
kKangXi 0712.050
kMandarin yán
kMojiJoho MJ016967
kMorohashi 20435
kPhonetic 1578*
kRSUnicode 94.7
kSBGY 137.35 412.05
kTotalStrokes 9
kUnihanCore2020 HMT