U+736C "獬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
獬
U+736C "獬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a mythical creature known as the xiezhi, a single-horned beast in East Asian folklore that symbolizes justice and the ability to distinguish right from wrong, often depicted goring the guilty. This ideograph is composed of the radical for dog or beast, 犭, combined with an element suggesting liberation or solution, reflecting its legendary role in legal and moral contexts. In modern usage, it appears in classical texts, names, and cultural references, and stands as a distinct glyph within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoded for digital representation of traditional Chinese and related scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+736C |
| 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 | 獬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 獬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x8D 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x736C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000736C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u736c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EA5E |
| kCCCII | 225829 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-584A |
| kCNS1992 | 2-584A |
| kCangjie | KHNBQ |
| kCantonese | haai5 |
| kCihaiT | 880.410 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1131.070 |
| kDefinition | a fabulous monster |
| kEACC | 225829 |
| kFanqie | 胡買 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4725.2 |
| kGB0 | 6619 |
| kGB1 | 6619 |
| kHangul | 해:1N |
| kHanYu | 21373.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21373.070:xiè,hǎ,jiě |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1131.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21373.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0719.330 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6233 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EA5E |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7052 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-587B |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-7335 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-584A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5E75 |
| kJapanese | カイ ゲ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6149 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,80,50 |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI GE |
| kJis1 | 4338 |
| kKangXi | 0719.330 |
| kKorean | HAY |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3749 |
| kMandarin | xiè |
| kMatthews | 2541 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ017085 |
| kMorohashi | 20734 |
| kPhonetic | 538 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14789+94.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 94.13 |
| kSBGY | 270.34 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 420.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiè粵haai5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3749 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 406.150:xiè |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | giải |
| kXerox | 304:274 |
| kXHC1983 | 1278.080:xiè |