U+732C "猬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+732C "猬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the hedgehog, a small spiny mammal. In classical and modern Chinese usage, this character can also refer to the porcupine or be used metaphorically to describe someone who is prickly or irritable in temperament. Its radical is the "dog" or "animal" radical (犭), indicating its connection to fauna, and it is pronounced as "wèi" in Mandarin. This character is most commonly encountered in the compound word "刺猬" (cì wèi), which is the standard term for hedgehog in Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point U+732C
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 猬
HTML Hex Encoding 猬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x8C 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x732C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000732C
C/C++/Java Escape \u732c

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 22574D
kCNS1986 E-3D2A
kCNS1992 3-3D2A
kCangjie KHWB
kCantonese wai6
kCihaiT 878.405
kDaeJaweon 1127.020
kDefinition vulgar; wanton; low; many; varied; a hedgehog, porcupine
kEACC 22574D
kFennIndex 596.04
kFourCornerCode 4622
kGB0 6612
kGB1 6612
kHanYu 21358.020
kHanyuPinlu wei(14)
kHanyuPinyin 21358.020:wèi
kIICore CG
kIRGDaeJaweon 1127.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21358.020
kIRGKangXi 0715.010
kIRG_GSource G0-622C
kIRG_HSource H-A065
kIRG_JSource J14-704B
kIRG_KPSource KP1-582C
kIRG_KSource K2-467B
kIRG_TSource T3-3D2A
kJapanese イ はりねずみ
kTGH 2013:2719
kJIS0213 2,80,43
kJapaneseKun HARINEZUMI
kJapaneseOn I
kJis1 4317
kKangXi 0715.010
kMainlandTelegraph 5798
kMandarin wèi
kMatthews 7078
kMeyerWempe 3747a
kMojiJoho MJ017011
kMorohashi 20536
kPhonetic 1439
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18071+94.3.9
kRSUnicode 94.9
kSemanticVariant U+875F<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "猬" U+732C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 419.06
kTGHZ2013 384.090:wèi
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "猬" U+732C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"蝟" U+875F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXerox 320:265
kXHC1983 1201.030:wèi