U+78B8 "碸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
碸
U+78B8 "碸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese kanji (Hanzi) character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block. It is composed of the radical "石" (stone) and the phonetic component "風" (wind), and its primary meaning is "sulfuric acid" or "alum," referring to a type of mineral salt. This character is used in traditional Chinese contexts, often in chemical or historical texts, and is considered a relatively rare ideogram in modern usage, with its Japanese equivalent being "磻" in some cases but not directly corresponding. The Unicode encoding allows consistent digital representation of this character across different platforms and software, preserving its graphical integrity as a stone-related logograph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+78B8 |
| 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 | 碸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 碸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x78B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000078B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u78b8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 246C68 |
| kCNS1986 | E-4840 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4840 |
| kCangjie | MRHNI |
| kCantonese | fung1 |
| kDefinition | a sulfone (chemical compound) |
| kGB1 | 7731 |
| kHanYu | 42444.150 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42444.150:fēng |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42444.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0833.291 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6D3F |
| kIRG_HSource | H-89AC |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4840 |
| kKangXi | 0833.291 |
| kMandarin | fēng |
| kRSUnicode | 112.9 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "砜" U+781C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 474.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fēng粵fung1 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXerox | 320:317 |