U+735C "獜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+735C "獜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character, whose exact meaning and usage are not well documented in standard modern dictionaries, though it is believed to be an archaic or variant form of other characters, often related to beasts or spirits. Its structure combines the radical for "dog" or "beast" (犭) with components suggesting sound or semantic cues from ancient texts. Historically, logographs like "獜" appear in classical literary works, including the "Shan Hai Jing" (Classic of Mountains and Seas), where it may denote a mythical or legendary animal. In modern times, this character is largely obsolete and not used in everyday Chinese writing, but it remains of interest to paleographers and scholars of historical linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point U+735C
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 獜
HTML Hex Encoding 獜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x8D 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x735C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000735C
C/C++/Java Escape \u735c

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 225771
kCangjie KHFDQ
kCantonese leon4
kDaeJaweon 1129.290
kFanqie 力珍 郎丁
kGB3 3668
kGSR 0387d
kHangul 린:1N
kHanYu 21369.070
kHanyuPinyin 21369.070:lín,lìn
kIRGDaeJaweon 1129.290
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21369.070
kIRGKangXi 0718.170
kIRG_GSource G3-4464
kIRG_JSource JMJ-017067
kIRG_KPSource KP1-5860
kIRG_KSource K1-5F68
kIRG_TSource T4-4A75
kIRG_VSource V2-7C5C
kJapanese リン レイ リョウ
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 0718.170
kKorean LIN
kMandarin lín
kMojiJoho MJ017067
kMorohashi 20680
kPhonetic 852*
kRSUnicode 94.12
kSBGY 103.42 196.51
kTotalStrokes 15