U+78C0 "磀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+78C0 "磀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character classified under the Kangxi radical for stone, and it is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese texts. This character is believed to represent a type of stone or rock, though its precise meaning and historical usage remain obscure, as it does not appear in standard contemporary dictionaries or common character databases. Its encoding in Unicode ensures digital preservation for scholarly study, such as in the analysis of ancient inscriptions or classical literature, where it may have served as a phonetic loan or variant form for more common characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+78C0
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	磀
HTML Hex Encoding	磀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA3 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x78C0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000078C0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u78c0

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

kCNS1986	E-4D4A
kCNS1992	3-4D4A
kCangjie	MRYTU
kCantonese	ngaak6
kHanYu	42449.110
kHanyuPinyin	42449.110:é
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42449.110
kIRGKangXi	0834.120
kIRG_GSource	GE-4443
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-018606
kIRG_TSource	T3-4D4A
kJapanese	ガク ギャク
kKangXi	0834.120
kMandarin	é
kMojiJoho	MJ018606
kMorohashi	24380
kRSUnicode	112.10
kTotalStrokes	14