U+731C "猜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+731C "猜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to guess," "to conjecture," or "to suspect." It is commonly used in modern Chinese and Japanese writing, appearing in everyday vocabulary such as 猜测 (cāicè) for "guess" or "speculate" and 猜疑 (cāiyí) for "suspicion." The character is composed of the radical 犭 (quǎn, meaning "dog" or "beast") on the left, which hints at a primitive or instinctive action, and the phonetic component 青 (qīng, meaning "blue" or "green") on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. Historically, the character's form has evolved from ancient scripts, maintaining its core semantic association with uncertain or inferential thinking. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it represents a key linguistic element for expressing doubt, estimation, or logical deduction across multiple East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+731C
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 猜
HTML Hex Encoding 猜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x8C 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x731C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000731C
C/C++/Java Escape \u731c

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 B271
kCCCII 214A74
kCNS1986 1-5B76
kCNS1992 1-5B76
kCangjie KHQMB
kCantonese caai1
kCihaiT 877.401
kCowles 413
kDaeJaweon 1125.200
kDefinition guess, conjecture, suppose; feel
kEACC 4B4A74
kFanqie 倉才
kFenn 82C
kFennIndex 539.03
kFourCornerCode 4522.7
kGB0 1834
kGB1 1834
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 1240b
kHangul 시:0N
kHanYu 21351.070
kHanyuPinlu cāi(98)
kHanyuPinyin 21351.070:cāi
kHKGlyph 2507
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1125.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21351.070
kIRGKangXi 0714.010
kIRG_GSource G0-3242
kIRG_HSource HB1-B271
kIRG_JSource J0-604A
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E5AB
kIRG_KSource K0-6344
kIRG_TSource T1-5B76
kJapanese サイ セ うたがう そねむ
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:2364
kJapaneseKun NETAMU
kJapaneseOn SAI
kJis0 6442
kKangXi 0714.010
kKorean SI
kLau 169
kMainlandTelegraph 3719
kMandarin cāi
kMatthews 6659
kMeyerWempe 67
kMojiJoho MJ016995 MJ016995:E0102 MJ016996:E0103
kMorohashi 20499 20499:E0102
kNelson 2892
kPhonetic 203
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5635+94.3.8 C+5635+174.8.3 V+14158+94.3.8 V+14158+174.8.3
kRSUnicode 94.8
kSBGY 100.36
kSMSZD2003Index 418.05
kSMSZD2003Readings cāi粵caai1
kTaiwanTelegraph 3719
kTang tsəi
kTGHZ2013 030.040:cāi
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 250:344
kXHC1983 0098.070:cāi